Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Chase and his men, once more on the defensive, rallied and carried the fight back down the ice, peppering the barrier consisting sometimes of five men back to their own blue line. As time passed things began to roughen and penalties were numerous. The climax of a sensational battle came when St. Germain the McGill leader, streaking down the boards, crashed into an excited spectator leaning out over the ice and carried him out onto the rink. Greatly incensed the Canadian star was all for fighting his unexpected defense opponent, but players and officials came to the rescue...
...short of munitions soon after a war began, but, as things now stand, they would have to wait about a year to get more munitions. They would have to wait longer than that if U. S. factories had to be taught how to make munitions. Therefore, since modern armies fight on their factories as well as their stomachs, Secretary Davis asked Congress to amend the National Defense Act so that the technique of munitions-making could be kept alive in the U. S. "nucleus" or "educational" orders...
...significance of this editorial lies in the fact that the country, getting so dangerously smug and fat with prosperity, is going to have another bitter political fight to range with those on Slavery, or the National Bank, and in this case to serve as an emetic and tonic. At last the worm, which has been turning for a long time, has accomplished the convolution. The feeling is evident in print, in the new book written by Darrow, and in the belliger out attitude of nearly all the important papers and magazines. The Civil Liberty unions have been quietly accomplishing much...
...anyone to prove that one is any "simpler" or more "sincere" than the other. My meaning, as you may gather, is that statements of the kind praised by you derive power only from the person by whom or the circumstance in which they are uttered. Example-"Too proud to fight." Had that not been attributed to Wilson at just one critical moment in our history it would have had no more power than any other group of four words. I admire Prime Minister Baldwin for his homespun virtues, and I rejoice at his steady political good luck-but I consider...
...spent all his money immediately after a fight; chiefly on liquor. Sometimes he committed petty crimes and begged the judge in court to send him up for 30 days in order that enforced abstinence might prepare him at least partially for his next encounter. Again and again he went drunk to the ring; and again and again just failed to crush great champions. In 1897 he made the final botch that removed him from serious consideration in the ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved...