Word: foul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foul!" Flustered and anxious to avoid a scene, the conference interpreter did not translate into French the insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote...
...Champion Joe Dundee, who lurched to his hands and knees. He was scarcely up at the count of "nine!" when the fast Fields deposited him again on the canvas. Dundee crawled across the ring. Then he reared swiftly and, as Fields jumped forward, discharged a long right-handed foul which sent the challenger writhing to the floor and automatically made him champion. In his dressing room Fields regained speech but not memory. Said he: "How did it happen? What happened? How did he flatten me? How did I win?" About 30,000 people paid $125,000 to see the foul...
...Foul thing...
...Venezuela, Eugene Manners, oil scout, "matches Yankee shrewdness against Latin cunning . . . and unscrupulous Dutch competitors." The heroine is "Sola Merida . . . whose flamelike beauty had so ill a setting in a foul cafe." Flamelike Sola appears at first as the daughter of Peon Pacheco. In the last chapter she is revealed as the entirely legitimate daughter and heiress of the aristocratic Toros...
...same play Prager was caught off second. At this juncture, Howard Whitmore '29 was sent in to quell the Quaker bats. He was greeted by Becker's single to right, which was responsible for the last Pennsylvania run. Slaughter was out when his bunt on the third strike rolled foul, and the damage was done...