Word: covey
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Planes swooped and circled outside Southampton as the huge Queen Elizabeth saluted her older sister with deep-throated blasts. Some 700 Cunard White Star guests, including a covey of admirals and a duke, were aboard to enjoy the ocean breezes in new super-deckchairs and gaze greedily at the shop windows in the promenade. The rich goods on display were held under customs seal until the Mary's first overseas passage this week, but there were free champagne, cocktails, candy and cigarets for everybody and a larder full of food, the like of which Britons had not seen...
...miss a Radcliffe troop coming the other way. Such happy looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a start, the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge celebrating the end of an era. What would the old grads think as they rolled over and bent an ear? What, indeed...
...story like that was too good to leave in the hands of Havana's 22 dailies, so a covey of U.S. newsmen flew in to take over. When Satira was taken aboard the yacht to "reenact" the shooting (before a perspiring judge and a mob of curious...
Starting at the forwards tonight will be Frank Lionette and Johnny Goldsmith, while Chuck Byrnteson and Dick Covey at guards will back up Rockwell at the pivot...
...Freshman squad played for at least two minutes in what was the final Yale tuneup battle. John Rockwell, ace pivot man, was high man again in the scoring department as he racked up 19 points. The starting lineup: Freshmen; rf, Lionette; if, Goldsmith; c, Rockwell; rg, Covey; lg, Byrnteson...