Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flagship, the band will be paraded, high officers will turn out in their gold braid and cocked hats. Admiral Sellers will step forward, read an order appointing him commandant at Annapolis. Then lean, bearded Joseph Mason Reeves will read an order making him master of all U. S. warships. "Bull"' Reeves has been an outstanding naval figure since that autumn afternoon in 1894 when, injured, he saved the day for Annapolis on the football field, spurred the Midshipmen to victory over Army, 6-4. After graduation he entered the engineering division, was in the belly...
Congressman Eddie Crump, "the Red Snapper of Tennessee." who "rode into town at the age of 18 on a bull calf." and remained to become the city's benevolent despot, absolutely controls all city and county offices. Negro Boss is big Bob Church, Oberlin and Harvard-educated with a college-graduate daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma...
Looking, talking and acting like a benevolent John Bull, Percy Bullen was the dean of British correspondents in the U. S. In 30 years he produced some 11,000,000 words of copy-"more," he proudly observes, "than in the Encyclopedia Britannica." His professional routine was more pleasant than that of the average newshawk. His office was above his apartment in a penthouse a few doors off lower Fifth Avenue. There every morning he would digest the daily newspapers arranged for him by a secretary. He might go out to luncheon with a banker, or speed to Washington...
...supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with the cruiser's crew, although we presume it had something to do with the curbing of personal liberty in Germany, reduced their fracas to the ignominy of childish "bull" baiting. The astuteness of the police in parking their pistols and resorting to skull crunching left their opponents without even the satisfaction of claiming a martyr to the cause. And finally, the unprecedented appearance of a sizeable body of Harvard men who came on the scene with the avowed purpose...
Score: Yale 7. Harvard 2. Twosomes: Munson (Y) defeated Edward H. Peterson, 6 and 5; George E. Enos defeated Fisher (Y), 3 and 2; McInerney (Y) defeated Allan G. Pattee, 7 and 6; Walker (Y) defeated Paul R. Wiley, 4 and 2; Richard G. Bull defeated Hewes (Y), 4 and 3; Eaton (Y) defeated John B. Barney, 2, and 1. Foursomes; Munson and Fisher defeated Peterson and Enos. 2 up: McInerney and Walker defeated Pattee and Wiley, 5 and 4; Hewes and Eaton defeated Bull and Barney...