Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...boss said I should write it a letter to you for him on account he is busy in a pinochle tournament. Anyhow he says he don't know nothing about football this year, neither does nobody else...
...true that in a very great many instances, popular elections throughout the country are only attended by a comparative minority. Smaller issues and candidates for petty positions are almost uniformly neglected by the better class of citizens. Hence there comes into power the crooked alderman and the "gang boss." This latter type could not exist if the voting privilege were universally used...
...young man is to make any real progress," a distinguished executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures...
...institutions the etiquette of the game is scrupulously observed. In short, each of Dean Randall's desires for the better training of students is realized on the athletic field in so far as it there can be. The disciplinarian's ideal of slavery either to a brute as a boss (many of our athletic coaches cultivate brutishness), or to an ideal that they must win, is present in athletics...
...Call of the Mountain," a play in four acts by E. C. Ranck, at Agassiz House Theatre, this evening and Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a tragedy of the Kentucky mountains, centering around the attempts of an unscrupulous mountaineer to keep his position as boss of the county. Mr. Ranck is entirely familiar with the life in Kentucky, and his main character, Zeke. Holston, played by S. J. Hume 1G., is not overdrawn with his killings and defiance...