Word: dame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years ago, the University of Notre Dame campus experienced the nearest thing to an earthquake it had known in 107 years of history. By order of suave, iron-willed Football Coach Frank Leahy, the revered Notre Dame shift, perfected by the great Knute Rockne and immortalized by such Notre Dame heroes as Christy Flanagan and the Four Horsemen, was unceremoniously junked. To replace it, Leahy wheeled in the T-formation...
...mutinous uproar at South Bend, buildings seemed to tremble-but none crumbled. All that happened was that Notre Dame, operating from Leahy's new T, became more devastating than ever. In 49 games, against the most rugged opponents that could be found, Leahy's T-men rolled up an awesome record of 42 victories, 4 ties, only 3 defeats. Last week, Coach Leahy bared a few of his T-secrets and coaching tricks in his new book Notre Dame Football-The T-Formation (Prentice-Hall...
With the lights doused by a storm and his wife about to give birth, Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, 41, urgently called two doctors to his Indiana home. They arrived to find that Leahy, working by candlelight, had already safely delivered the Leahy's sixth child, fourth boy ("a fullback, I think"). The coach's critique: "If you think a football game is exciting, you should have been at our house last night...
...make matters worse, his dead father, famed Sir Dagobert, had always been a very model of knighthood, had throttled a hawk at the age of two, killed a wild boar at six. Willie wasn't impressed by such accounts, but his mother, the Dame de Littlehampton, wouldn't let him forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted...
...Died. Dame Una Pope-Hennessey, 73, distinguished-British biographer (Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, 1934; Charles Dickens, 1945; Canon Charles Kingsley, 1949) who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1930 by King George V for her war work; in London...