Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Band will possess the biggest bass drum in the country this fall. It is a present from the Philadelphia Harvard Club, donated last year when the Band performed at the Philadelphia meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The giant drum will be mounted on a frame with four bicycle wheels to permit of field maneuvering. Its first appearance on Soldiers Field takes place the day of the Springfield game...
...hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action. From trout-fishing, the President, one evening, turned to "plugging" for black bass. Guide John Laroque piloted him over the glassy sunset surface of Island Lake, 20 miles from the Lodge. Mrs. Coolidge and the secret-service men watched and applauded. The President caught ten. Another new sport was clay-pigeon shooting. The President was presented with some handsome shotguns...
...errand "purely sociable," small James John Walker, Mayor of New York and foreign minister of Tammany Hall, proceeded last week into, through, and roundabout the Southwest and California. He caught a black bass at Fort Worth, Tex.; posed with sombrero and steer horns; crossed the Mexican border to see the hard-boiled racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went...
AFTER Lorelei Lee has married Henry Spoffard and become a family woman in a small way, she settles down to give a waiting world the low down on Dorothy, the tart brunette who sang bass in the earlier story. She traces Dorothy's education from her childhood in a carnival company to New York and the Follies and eventually to the altar (twice...
...length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing-room, loser of the world's featherweight championship.* Tapped and fondled by the official doctor, he was declared to be suffering from a probable fracture of the collarbone. Bass had fought through some ten rounds of one of the most vicious...