Word: fletcherizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thaon de Reval, Minister of Marine; Signer Rocco, Minister of Justice; Senator Schanzer, ex-Foreign Minister; Senator Contarini, Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry; Signer de Stefani, Minister of Finance; Commendatore Pace, Director General of the Treasury and one of Italy's leading bankers; U. S. Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher...
...Other men elevated in the service for merit: Henry Prather Fletcher, Ambassador at Rome, has served in the diplomatic corps since 1902; William Phillips, Ambassador to Belgium, in the service since 1905; Hugh Gibson, Minister to Switzerland, in the service since 1908; Peter Augustus Jay, Ambassador to Argentina, in the service since...
...Indeed, the university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke...
...Emory 21, and S. H. Humes 2L, known as the "Mutt and Jeffs," together with Paris Fletcher 1L and L. T. Wade 2L, or the "Appleknockers," are the Law School cycle aces. Each pair possesses a two-seated machine and have proclaimed their proficiency in the sport by issuing a challenge to all comers. An undergraduate duet, who withhold their names for the present, have accepted the offer under the title of "Authony and Cleopatra," and have began rigorous training...
...Georgetown array is impressive, but very close to it comes the Crimson offering of Miller, Fletcher, Tibbetts, Allen, Kane, Watters, Lundell, Chapin, Cutcheon, Berglund and Captain Dunker. Rumors have been afloat during the past week of remarkable performances these athletes were turning in on the board track at Soldiers Field. The one about Miller breaking the world time in the 70-yard dash on the M. I. T. track is known to be authentic. Fletcher, the hurdler who broke into fame last week, has shown by the consistant repetition of his world record performance that the stopwatches at Mechanics Hall...