Word: bended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrum end-lineup for the start or resumption of play. The ball-pigskin covered but blunter than an American football-is thrown between two packs of forwards who bend over with locked arms, butting against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a knock-on (forward fumble while running). After a ball goes into touch end (out-of-bounds) it is lined-out (thrown in among two lines of forwards). A player catching a kick can signal for the equivalent of a fair catch by digging his heel in the turf and crying...
...President, he had gone to Washington ten months ago to do business before Government departments, had not yet been admitted to the District of Columbia bar. Said he last week: "When I go into a department, I always tell them to settle the matter on its merits and to bend over backward in view of my being secretary of the national committee. And they do lean over backward...
Invisible to the audience is a "bridge" above the little stage on which a row of leather-aproned Italians bend over a rail. One operator holds in his fingers the dozen fish-line strings attached to Don Juan's flexible joints. Another dangles the little peasant girl. When Don Juan crosses the stage, the steady-handed operators exchange their rack of strings with incredible dexterity. Husband & wife, father & son, these operators have been bred in the art of Italian marionet work...
...more developments in the Kipke story which seemed enough to cause it to obliterate all other news from U. S. sports pages. In New Haven, Malcolm Farmer announced that the Yale Athletic Association would not announce the name of next year's coach until Feb ruary. In South Bend, Ind., where he was reported to be conferring with "representatives of Yale," famed Coach Kipke made one more statement: "I am not considering any offer at Yale. I do not know where all the stories come from...
...vein of mystery and creeping things, granted that you have a liking for a dash of the thrilling with a preference for locality, try Brand's "Death in a Forest" (Kendall, $2.00), which takes you into Central America, or T. Lund's "Robbery at Portage Bend" (Kendall, $2.00) a story of the icebound North and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police. If your taste is less primeval "The Murder of a Banker" (Knopf. $2.00) by J. S. Fletcher should prove diverting...