Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further development in Harvard football strategy became apparent during this week of practice: Valpey is slowly progressing toward a complete two-platoon system. In the last days both Will Davis and Sam Butler have become members of the defensive team, paring down the two-unit men to Ken O'Donnell alone...
Sophomores Sam Butler and Will Davis have moved up as a result of staff voting this week. Valpey and his aides made the decision after milling over movies of the Columbia game. End Stretch Mazzone is also challenging for a first-string berth...
Columbia makes a tradition of having presidents who dabble in politics. Seth Low was a noted reform mayor of New York. Nicholas Murray Butler was, for a time, a considerable power in Republican politics, and reputedly harbored White House ambitions...
...Distressed Butler. It must be said that Red police and troops behaved with almost commendable restraint, in the fray at Brandenburger Tor. They had no goal there: trouble was forced upon them. Their masters and the masters' stooges behaved infinitely worse, earlier in the week, at the City Hall, where they had a coldly planned objective. There they clamped a final, successful siege on the building, drove out the City Assembly, and-incidentally but treacherously-seized 46 hapless West-sector police...
Through it all, pale, ineffectual Friedensburg pattered back & forth between Allied offices and his own; he wore the disapproving and distressed look of a butler at a tea party when one of the guests has dropped an éclair on his mistress' finest carpet. In the middle of a lame press conference which he had summoned, word came that the Soviet-sector police had arrived in force, were swarming all over the building. For a while the reason was not clear; then it was learned that 46 West-sector police in plainclothes, summoned by Friedensburg, were trapped...