Word: embroglio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annex hockey team yesterday accepted the challenge of the Mill Street Field Hockey Association for a two-sex embroglio "sometime between...
Valpey, in a rarely unpessimistic mood, seemed reasonably pleased with what he had seen in the movies of Saturday's embroglio. "They made some improvements, "he commented. "They're coming along. They certainly can hold their heads up after that...
League games with Dartmouth, Tufts, Williams, M.I.T., and New Hampshire and an extra-curricular tiff with the Boston Lacrosse Club will bring the team up to May 24 and the Yale embroglio well primed for Bulldog meat. At this early date predictions on the outcome of the N.E.I.L.L. race for the Briggs Trophy are pointless, but come what may April 1 will find Chief Maddux and his ten best practitioners of the old Indian game on the warpath and howling...
...Marx Brothers, happily caught in the revival cycle, have been racing through a cinematic renaissance. No serious student of Comparative Comedy can afford to finesse this eighty-minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since elevated to tonier company as "The Magnificent Yankee"--an embassy villain who early in the film loses his coattails, and his dignity, to the omni-present shears of Harpo, the foursome's fair-haired...
...Chasemen, on the other hand, have almost fully recovered from their recent ailments. Dick Harding, who didn't play against Northeastern and Dartmouth because of grippe, will be ready for duty. Caleb Loring, injured in the Huskie embroglio, is thus the only Varsity casualty, and his place on the first Chase line will be taken by Sophomore Jim Apthorp who filled in very capably in the Dartmouth contest...