Word: foul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the other members of the team, together accounted for five field goals. The Eli basketeers had but few opportunities to score and failed through poor shooting to convert any of these opportunities into points. Their total of four points for the period came from free throws. Goals from foul added seven points to the Harvard total...
Rothenfeld was the star performer of the game, making three goals from the floor and six from the foul lines...
...Freshman game was featured by the play of Captain Wenner, the highest scorer of the game, making six goals from the field and two from the foul line...
Viscount Gladstone, 73, lively son of the late famed Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, continued last week to make unbridled use of the adjective "foul," as the libel suit brought against him by Captain Peter Wright (TIME, Feb. 7) continued. Originally Viscount Gladstone merely declared: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow!" referring to aspersions cast upon Prime Minister Gladstone in Captain Wright's book: Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, July 26). But last week, when Viscount Gladstone took the stand, he delivered himself as follows: "Captain Wright made a foul and loathsome charge against my father...
Verdict. The jury, after a brief absence, returned the verdict that it was not libelous for Viscount Gladstone to have referred to Captain Wright as "a foul fellow . . . a liar ... a coward . . . and a fool." Having thus squelched the Captain, the foreman of the jury addressed the presiding justice as follows: "My lord, the jury wish to add that it is our unanimous opinion that the evidence placed before us has completely vindicated the hieh moral character of the late Mr. William Ewart Glad-stone...