Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them on the campus ... Of course I know the usual answer; the cheering crowds, the gay sights, the strong virile hemen, idolizing the even stronger, more virile he-coach, the grand young future before the boy that makes the winning punt, admitted straightway to a prominent position as bond-chaser in Lee Higginson's well-known counting-house . . . They [the s. v. he-men] are fed warmed-over editorials by Doc. Crane about 'Jesus on the Bleachers' and 'Saint Paul on the Field of Battle,' and this may account for the fact that they cheat with a sort of early...
...Fighting Coward. There was once a light satire which Booth Tarkington wrote, and it was called Magnolia. This is it again, cinemized, burlesqued. Of course it is entirely improbable, but most funny things are. Whereas there was once a lily livered young butterfly chaser, whose hat was stamped on by a rude bully of a rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then...
...recent Pennsylvania case discloses what appears to be the " ambulance chaser " par excellence.. A man was injured in an automobile accident on April 25, 1920, and died two days later, having remained continuously unconscious. A suit for damages was started on April 26 in his name...
...they could seen, for every effort that involved a noise of any kind was registered on the ear pieces of the delicate listening instruments. All one night and part of the next day the poor Germans struggled manfully to make the repairs upon which their lives depended, while the chasers kept watch prepared to use their guns in case she succeeded in reaching the surface-they had used all their depth charges and had sent one chaser in for more. Finally, there was silence for some hours, followed by a very sharp ringing sound recognized as the crack...
...Harbours of Memory" is his latest volume, and in it one may travel on an antiquated freighter from London to sunny Mediterranean ports. He shares with his readers the stifling atmosphere of a submarine chaser on a sultry summer afternoon off the coast of Spain. One can dreamazily with him of other ports and climes, and all the while may remain in the easy chair in his study while the logs on the hearth crackle merrily and the snow falls softly in the Yard outside