Word: doormats
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...perhaps I am being unreasonable in asking for a change. But I somehow dislike my alma mater being used as a doormat by most of the teams we play. What do you think? Am I wrong? I would appreciate any comment. --Name Withheld by Request
...League Browns, winners of one pennant (1944) in 50 years, have barely kept out of the red. Rival American League teams, including such drawing cards as the New York Yankees, lose money on the trip to St. Louis. Last year, after effervescent Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) bought the doormat Browns, things began to change. Using the showman stunts that brought fans out in droves when he owned the Cleveland Indians, Veeck shot off fire works before games, imported jitterbugs and contortionists, selected grandstand managers to help run the team, handed out free drinks, and even sneaked a midget into...
Buck insisted that while the Crimson would lighten its schedule in the future, the team would continue in the Ivy League, and not as a doormat...
...jayvee football player can be identified by his uniform, which is invariably the dirtiest on the practice field. This is an occupational disease, and stems from the jayvee's function as farm team and doormat for the varsity...
...that the Radcliffe Girl turned into a member of the human race." A long way had been come since 1884 when an editorial dealing with the same subject suggested that the members of the "Harvard Annex" might consider themselves as "...collegiate guardians of good morals and good order." This "doormat to Heaven" conception of a woman's place in the world was the condescending side of the masculine philosophy embodied in the Chinese proverb that "the three virtues of women are to obey the father, to obey the husband, to obey...