Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marked the introduction of the "hidden ball" or spinner plays. Haughton had developed these the summer before by experimenting with the plays, using his wife, famed for her judgment, and his dog, which was an excellent ball-chaser. Finding that both womanly institution and canine instinct were successfully fooled in trying to locate the holder of the ball, he decided that plays of this type were feasible in actual play...
...class book of 1912 at the University of Colorado, under a picture of Floyd Bostwick Odium, is the caption: "Manages to get his hands on everything that makes money." Starting as an obscure chaser of ambulance chasers in Utah, lean, sandy-haired Floyd Odium got his hands on $14,000,000 in cash and quick assets just before the market broke in 1929. He sat on his money until 1930, then quietly began placing his bets. Result: Floyd Odium is Depression's No. 1 phenomenon and his Atlas Corp., with assets of $110,000,000, the biggest investment trust...
...this information. It looks as if you would rather take your medicine than tell us." Two days later the Chronicle took its medicine-$500 fine for the newspaper, $250 each for Editors Rowell & Chandler. But on the day after that, the dose was washed down by a delicious chaser. The Supreme Court ordered a new trial for David A. Lamson...
...peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...
Sportsman & Trophy Chaser...