Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caused many misgivings as to the future of Britain and of the world. It is perhaps this ominous clued which in some quarters dampened the rejoicing at the jubilee. But, as one observer put it, Londoners are so used to dark clouds that yesterday only a real cannon ball from across the channel could have disturbed their King's celebration...
...entire ground floor of the new U. S. Embassy was decorated for its first grand ball as a combination barnyard and zoo. Moscow's two best jazz orchestras blared near a frisky goat, four droop-eyed sheep, a cageful of songbirds and roosters. Two bear cubs, borrowed by Ambassador Bullitt from the Moscow Public Zoo, spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek...
...schoolboys, the Drake carnival had a Queen: Nona Kenneaster, brunette senior at Fresno State College, selected from 28 nominees of competing colleges by the editors of the Drake year book, for her "poise, personality, beauty and intelligence." Queen Kenneaster toured the campus, presided over a Queen's Ball, received a crown from Drake President Daniel Webster Morehouse, was guest of honor at a "D" Club dance and accepted an invitation from Huey Long to have breakfast in his hotel suite. That afternoon, when he turned up at the field, Huey Long was roundly booed...
...much too early to talk about men or personalities. What we have to do new is what the line has to do in a football game. We have to act as interference and clear away the opposition before we start to talk about who is going to carry the ball...
Dunster House re-elected Thomas Henry Quinn '36, of West Warwick, Ithode Island, and Gordon Farquhar Robertson '36, of Hewlett, New York, to its House Committee, results showed yesterday. As new members, Charles Colmery Gibson '37 of Atlanta, Georgia, Edward Ball Simmons of Baltimore, Maryland, and Arthur Perry, Jr. '36, of Dover, were chosen...