Word: deerfielders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attention has been called to an editorial in your issue of November 19, entitled "Ending With a Kiss," in which you attribute to Loomis the honor of having been Jeanne d'Arc'd to victory over the behemoths of Deerfield by the promises of Miss Bette Davis. True, we did recently manage to defeat Deerfield in football; but unless the boys who managed to bring about the victory have been holding out on me, Miss Davis had nothing to do with the game's outcome. As evidence, I bring forward the fact that three of our four most effective backs...
Rumor has reached me that the osculatory bribe was used to inspire a Cushing Academy team before its game with Deerfield. I am told that Miss Davis is an alumna of that institution, which fact alleviates somewhat the reprobation. If my information is correct, you underrate Miss Davis's charms; Cushing won the game 34-0. Sidney L. Eaton...
...seems that the Loomis eleven was about to meet a highly touted bunch of toughs from up Deerfield way, and the team, coaching staff, and student body were trembling, collectively and individually at the thought of the impending shellacking. But sweet are the uses of adversity, and some clever alumnus, or someone else in power turned on the heat, and Miss Bette Davis, of Hollywood fame, rose magnificently to the occasion. Casting modesty, prudery, and other such doubtful virtues to the winds, she offered to bestow a resounding kiss in her best cinema manner upon anyone who should score...
...frontier town of Redfield, Mass. (now Deerfield), was in poor shape for defense against the French and their Indian allies. Its palisade was old and rotten and a heavy snowfall had made it even less of a protection. There were only 150 men in the town. The cold and sleepy sentries did not suspect the attack until it was too late. But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them...
Adoniram Judson Wells Jr., aged 17, of Highland Park, Ill., graduate of Deerfield-Shields Township High School. Wells was valedictorian of his class, was active in school publications, dramatics, and track, and has shown originality in his chemistry laboratory at home...