Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate condensed what might have been a two-week hubbub into a two-day debate by establishing the precedent of keeping a Senator out while investigating his right to be in. Thus, Senator-designate and Senator-elect Smith found the door of the 69th Senate shut in his face and his pathway to the 70th made more difficult...
Thereupon, Senator Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey, Democrat, famed for the appearance of his face in Lucky Strike advertisements, offered Mr. Dawes a cigaret. The Vice President accepted it, took two deep inhales, crumpled it on his plate. Later, in the drawing room, he resorted to his pipe...
Standing up straight with thin gloves on their hands two boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of the world, bloody, ferocious, who wanted to win. The other was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildcat, who won-after 40 rounds when Nelson, blind and helpless, lurched against the ropes and spat blood into the ringside seats. That was 17 years ago in San Francisco...
Playing the final games of the season, the University and Freshman basketball teams will face Yale tonight; at 7 o'clock in the Freshman Athletic Building, the 1930 team, and at 8.30 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium, the University will play their objective games...
...trios of Crimson horsemen will ride tonight on the floor of the Commonwealth Armory. The University polo players will face the 110th Cavalry team in the semi-finals of the championship play of the first division of the league...