Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were having up there . . . something about carpenters and plasterers, or was it about a memorial that the real argument had been? Anyway, it seemed that the workmen had walked out one morning. It was perfectly familiar down on Plympton street, too having heaps of saud, and workmen blocking traffic. Cagey system building the pagoda in between Russell and Westmorly, then tearing down Russell, cutting a big hole in the pagoda right off, so as to connect things...
Ryall Springs, Ga., was ripe for salvation. Nothing had happened there for a long time; even the wicked women-chasers, cardplayers, boozers were bored, welcomed the prospect of a camp meeting. Everything went even better than Brother Lowe's cagey schedule had planned. People swarmed in from miles around, sat themselves in rows on square-hewed logs, shivered expectantly as they waited to get the jerks, the barks, the hysterical whoops-&-jingles. Brother Semple preached the opening sermon at nightfall, on The Death of a Sinner. He panicked the crowd, laid them in holy rolling rows. Aristocrat Lou Crawford...
...game began with Dunster kicking off to the Lowell, and what looked like a bad placement turned into a cagey move when the Dunsterites recovered the ball themselves and started an offensive toward the Lowell goal line. Lowell hold, however, and the two elevens battled on even terms at midfield. The Dunster score came in the second period, when a fumbled punt gave them the ball on Lowell's 35-yard line. From there, led by G. F. Cassedy '33, whose line plunges formed the chief threat of the Dunster attack, a series of power plays secured the desired score...