Word: deaconness
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...MeSweeney '41, Secretary of the House League, characterized the Deacon five as "consistent winners," and stated that "an aggressive passing attack combined with an unusually tight man-to-man defense gives Harvard the best chance of victory in three or four years...
...lived in a big house in the old part of town on the Main Line, had a law practice of sinecures tossed his way by friendly bankers and fellow Academy and Penn men. He founded the Juristic Society, an exclusive little legal and social group. Religious, he became a deacon and trustee of Germantown's Second Presbyterian Church...
Apparently nervous over the fact that Carroll's balding head, which gives him the look of a village deacon, might detract from the glamor to be associated with a dashing entrepreneur of naked floor shows, Paramount suggested that Carroll wear a wig in the picture. Carroll refused, explained: "A bald-headed boulevardier has more appeal for women than any clumsy youngster, no matter how well covered is his scalp...
Kirkland missed a first down by inches of the Winthrop 5 to throw away the only scoring chance either team had all afternoon in the evenly matched contest. It was Joe Ahern, Chuck Griffith, and Jack Addington who led the Deacon attack that got nowhere against the Puritan eleven headed by Ralph Davenport in the line and Dick Eustis and Dick Loomis in the backfield...
...F.D.R. 113 to 81 in Lowell House and 103 to 79 in Eliot, but the President held a narrow four-vote margin in Kirkland, 81 to 77. Norman Thomas ran a consistently poor third, while Langdon P. Marvin Jr. '41 found himself the choice of one enthusiastic Deacon and an optimistic Bunny...