Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West. G. O. P. Chairman Simeon Davison Fess was ordered back to Washington lest his presence give the President's trip the appearance of a political junket. Postmaster General Brown, however, was permitted to go along. Outside Altoona the train was run off on a siding at Mule Shoe Bend, high among the mountains. Ties were lashed to the tracks to keep it from rolling; switches were spiked; the President slept seven quiet hours...
Knute Kenneth Rockne, famed Notre Dame football coach, prepared to open a broker's office in South Bend's Odd Fellows Hall as South Bend representative and special partner of R. H. Gibson & Co. of Cincinnati. With him will be Al Feeney, onetime (1911-13) Notre Dame center. Broker Rockne will conduct his new business without interference to his coaching...
Midwest: Illinois v. Butler, at Urbana; Michigan v. Purdue, at Ann Arbor; Minnesota v. Stanford, at Minneapolis; Northwestern v. Ohio State, at Evanston; Notre Dame v. Navy, at South Bend; Oklahoma v. Nebraska, at Norman; Wisconsin v. Chicago, at Madison...
...Dramatically she has suggested her early martial impressions: "Before my ears were attuned to music or my eyes keen for sunshine, the muffled throb of drums and shuffling feet beating time bore strange wonderings to my small, eager mind." After she was graduated from St. Mary's Academy (South Bend, Ind.) in 1876, she took to the light operatic stage, appearing in La Mascotte, Fatinitza, Erminie, The Mikado, H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance. During this period she married Harry Brown, musi-comedian, by whom she had a son who died at the age of four. About that...
...call it the 'Varsity Drag,' please. It's the University, and a very dignified dance." Principal features are an erect body bent slightly forward and the slow drag of the feet from back to front after each step. Collegiate jiggers will dance it with a slight bend of the knee. Conservatives will do it with more dignity, legs straight...