Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither Yale nor Harvard allowed their first opponents to score upon them. No heel or seal-ring prints were seen upon the face of Guarnaccia, Harvard's halfback, after he and his fellows had scored 30 points against Springfield. Yale, though not easily, made 27 points against Maine...
Critic Philip Hale of the Boston Herald found the first concert satisfying, wrote: "If Debussy could have heard his 'Festivals' he would have gone on the platform and, in the face of the public, embraced Mr. Koussevitzky...
...traffic code was adopted, that within another generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost, because illegal, art, agility in the human species is in danger of becoming a valueless and obsolete characteristic...
...Roman Catholic. . . . Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, number-two-man of the Progressive (LaFollette) ticket in 1924, travelled with the Nominee on the train, energetic, cordial. . . . Some Montana Indians replaced the Brown Derby with eagle feathers and named the wearer Chief Leading Star. They daubed his face with warpaint. . . . . . . The Sioux of North Dakota produced another headdress and the Happy Warrior became Chief Charging Hawk Leading Star Alfred Emanuel Governor Smith, Sachem of St. Tammany's Society. ... He played checkers with an Irishman in the Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained...
...head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long enough to see his assailant fall forward exhausted by the exertion this effort had cost him at such an altitude. Out of control, the plane dived thousands of feet into the oxygen-laden air below, where both made a timely recovery, landed the plane, delivered the photographs...