Word: fobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he started rolling for his singles score one of the fellows gave him a rabbit's foot. He hung it fob-like from his watch pocket, remarking: "I'll need two of these." One was enough. In the first frame Bowler McGeorge found the groove with a wide Dutch hook, curving into the 1-3 pocket from the extreme right side of the alley. The pins scattered like cats off an alley fence. Then, ten more times without a miss, Bowler McGeorge's pet two-finger ball socked sweetly into the 1-3. Intent on remembering...
...outdone, the be-muscled mentor presented Hutter from himself and the squad, a statuette of a swimmer for the Crimson leader's "competitive ability and spirit of leadership." Getchell awarded each Varsity man an engraved watch-fob, gifts from the H.A.A. to the team as winners of the Eastern League title and victors over Yale...
...said he was "looking for a cheap and warm and comfortable place to write a humorous novel of California." . . . At William & Mary College homecoming of alumni last week, the colored Henry Billups, bell-ringer of the college for 48 years, was given a gold watch and chain and bell fob, a new broom and a Bible. An early Christmas for Henry this year...
Lost--At or near Harvard Square, lady's silver watch and fob. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving same at a Garden street, Cambridge...
...these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There was Boss Tweed's fire engine, Americus No. 6, whose dashboard was decorated with the original Tammany Tiger. There were ship models of every carrier that has plowed the harbor from the Half...