Word: foule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these "conscientious" objectors. The term bill is the natural place for all such college charges, from room rent to beer at the Eliot House grill. It is easier for students as well as Lehman Hall to group all expenses in a single reckoning. But aside from the obvious of foul play uncovers a lack of graciousness and sportsmanship unlooked for in even the most crabbed faction of Dudley members. Since its inception the had has provided a gracious and much-needed social center, and under Mr. White's leadership the estate of commuters at Harvard has gained tremendously. The outburst...
...assumes that it is a provincial monstrosity. Of U. S. slang he says "it is one part 'natural growth' and nine parts a nervous disorder. It is St. Vitus's Talk." He opens a big door, then hastily slams it, when he admits: "The step from foul American slang to valuable English idiom is sometimes very short"-then changes the subject. He further weakens his case for Royalist English by attacking the divine right of dictionaries, even the Oxford (but he bows to H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage). "Modern dictionaries are pusillanimous works, preferring...
Saturday night's defeat may be attributed to too many fouls. Both teams scored 11 times, but the Crimson riders made one more foul than did the soldier trio and this proved to be the deciding half point. In a match played earlier in the season, the Palmermen lost on the West Point tanbark 15-12, due to the fact that they played on borrowed mounts and to the unaccustomed size of the arena...
...respectively for the Gold Coasters, garnered five points apiece to lead the attack for the home team, while right guard Mark Saxton managed to add four more points to the total. Blan Hale and Rog Silsby each sank a basket, and Max Manker scored the other point on a foul shot...
...Majesty's ancestress, the Sun Goddess, who is supposed to be the constant celestial Protectress of the Empire, can look into the hearts of wicked Japanese and warn good Japanese of their foul intentions, Prince Saionji inevitably would be one of the first to be warned. Some secret source, human or divine, tipped off Japan's Exalted Octogenarian. From his rustic villa at Okitsu in a speeding motor car Prince Saionji raced through night and snow to nearby Shizuoka where he was guarded by 100 police who kept the secret from murderous mustards...