Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is the man who, according to the present discerning biographer, "shares with Walt Whitman the distinction of being the greatest imaginative writer that America has produced; his epic, Moby Dick, is one of the supreme poetic monuments of the English language; and in depth of experience and religious insight there is scarcely any one in the nineteenth century, with the exception of Dostoyevsky, who can be placed beside...
...Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...
...Dick Black, captain of the 1928 Dartmouth much-battered football team, while playing ping-pong last week, was severely injured by running a large splinter into his forearm. He was put in the infirmary...
...Dick did win. James Cash Penney, chain store owner and raiser of Guernsey, paid $7 a pound for Dick-$8,050 all told. The highest previous price was $3.60 a pound, two years ago. Mr. Penney intended to ship Dick to Manhattan, exhibit him to the urbanites, then eat him for Christmas dinner. But gourmanderie was not Mr. Penney's prime reason for buying Dick, nor advertising. He has stores in small towns throughout the country and he wished to encourage boy & girl stockbreeders, his customers...
...When Dick was so fatally sold, Clarence was nowhere about. His father imagined him, now a rich boy, kidnapped. A scared posse found the stripling all a-blubber, trying to warm his back against the outside of a stockyard store. Reporters nagged him. Muttered he: "Dick's so gentle he wouldn't hurt anybody. But he knew me best, and every time I went near him he tried to lick my face...