Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly spooked a figure. It was not the Ghost. It was a young male embodiment in long knitted underwear. The audience guffawed. Old Bob did not see the apparition and the audience recognized it only as some University of Michigan fraternity neophyte. This year that ghost is the prime champion of human derelicts in U.S. politics, and he is recognized as Sheridan Downey, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in the great and screwy State of California...
...Egger. Candidate Bancroft's father left him and his brother enough money and land in and around San Francisco for Philip, returning unwell from the War, to give up lawyering in the city and go to raising walnuts and pears (at which he is a champion), and practicing leadership at farmers' association meetings. A quiet, pipe-smoking type who (like Downey) really wants the results more than the office, Philip Bancroft talks sharply about the "racketeering" of city labor organizers who "stir up hate" among his Mexican pickers and Japanese packers. He has made overtures...
...Harvard, where he took a law degree, he was pistol champion as well as a mandolin player. Mandolins and pistols would be a good accompaniment for the speeches in which he seeks to be a reasonable Progressive at the same time he is being a firm landholder. His title to "Progressive" dates from Bull Moose days (1912) which makes him, in the eyes of today's Liberal, a rank Tory...
Last week the No. 1 rivalry of the Midwest became the No. 1 football interest of millions of U.S. fans. Minnesota, in its seventh year under Coach Bernie Bierman, boasted a team equal to the famed 1934 and 1935 outfits that earned the unofficial title of U.S. champion. Michigan, under its new coach, Fritz Crisler (recently lured from Princeton), displayed an unexpected renaissance after losing 22 of its 32 games in the past four years...
Among the 58,000 spectators who filled Minnesota's Memorial Stadium, Bernie Bierman's team was the favorite. Defending champion of the Big Ten, it had beaten Washington, Nebraska and Purdue this season. Fritz Crisler's green but speedy team had beaten Michigan State 14-to-0 and Chicago...