Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restlessness broke out in Ohio, too. At St. Clairsville, police hunted for "Red Head Carrie" Cressi, aged 18, for leading a crew of older termagants to hurl bricks at the Crabapple Mine, injuring Superintendent Tom Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues...
...when they were schoolboys, the Old Boys (i. e. graduates) of U. S. private schools wonder what their old-time "Heads," "Doctors," "Prexies" and "Kings" talk about when they get together. The newspapers told something of the Princeton meeting-how the trip to England of the studious Kent School crew last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing over a chestnut...
...German who, far from being the ogre that war propaganda would have us believe, was a sportsman and a gentleman. He took a sporting chance to get through the blockade, and once through it he justified the chance. Not a ship did he destroy without first removing the crew and offering them the very good hospitality of his own vessel. It would be gratifying if the same praise might be said of the hospitality of his subsequent captors. His deeds of daring rival the tales of days before mud and trenches, and cast a much needed glow of romance...
Liniment, railroad fare, telegrams, spiked shoes, coaches' salaries were so costly that every other sport showed a deficit. Crew cost Yale the most, $65,618; the Gun Club, least expensive, was a $651 luxury. Visiting teams pocketed a third of the huge football monies. The rest went toward promoting adequate padding and feed for Yale athletes, toward athletic education, toward that potent plank in every college sales talk, "Athletics...
Denying that there was any criminal neglect of duty in connection with the raising of the S-4, he continued, "Everything possible was done by those in charge to rescue the crew from the doomed vessel, in the light of the then-known circumstances...