Word: bulldogged
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Down at New Haven, someone wanted to rear a brazen bulldog in a public place, to symbolize the spirit of the Yale teams. But when the secretaries of the classes who would have given it were consulted, the proposal met with unanimous and overwhelming opposition. Probably, these secretaries saw visions of thousands of editorials, filled with "golden calves" and "sacrifices to Molech" and were wise...
Percy D. Haughton, who overthrew the strongest traditions in American football when he cooled the blue blood of the New Haven bulldog, has deserted Harvard to assume control of the faltering destinies of Columbia upon the football field...
...then no one has claimed that "It Is the Law" can approach "The Bat" or "The Thirteenth Chair" in cleverness and finesse. "Bulldog Drummond" is more in its line. Albert Woodruff, as the villain fills us with the same sort of creepy horror that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac...
...imperial Yale triumvirate of captain, coach, and Walter Camp. But this inter-working continuity and ever-working salubrity was at length abandoned for the present restless, "fall once try something else" method. The result, only one victory over Harvard since 1910 and eight defeats, has been disappointing. Now the Bulldog is wondering where that bone is he buried some ten or fifteen years...
...Hollis-"Bulldog Drummond", with H. B. Warner. The best of modern thrillers, ably composed and produced. Those who dislike gun-shots on the stage, beware...