Word: fouls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strengthened by his enemies' foul play, but still doubtful of what lay in store, Stanley Baldwin went to Caxton Hall. The big Conservative meeting rose and cheered him while Baron Beaverbrook glowered. Attempting to defend Leader Baldwin, loyal Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham unwittingly disclosed the real temper of the conclave when, at the conclusion of his speech, he asked, indicating Mr. Baldwin, "Who is there to take his place...
...first the Yale absurdists seemed far in the lead. They announced that the motion pictures showed a foul in the play which pushed the Army touchdown across. Possibly there was. But it has nothing to do with the case. The fouls that count in football, and, very properly, are those which the officials see. No other reckoning is possible. If the verdict of comprehensive slow motion pictures were accepted, not one, but many, uncalled fouls would be revealed in every hard-fought game. The scores of every important football game in history would have to be revised. The decision...
...column was filled with nothing but--Wear your shorts, wear your shorts, wear your shorts, etc. It appeared in large bold type, and minute type, but it appeared nevertheless. The editorial ended with, "Rain or shine, put on your shorts, sleet or snow, put on your shorts; fair or foul, put on your shorts, blustery or balmy, put on your shorts right now before you have your coffee and doughnuts, PUT ON YOUR SHORTS...
Phil Scott, foul-claiming English heavyweight fighter who lost to Jack Sharkey last March at Miami when Sharkey punched him in the stomach (TIME, March 10), opened a beauty parlor at Thornton Heath, England...
...frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth, but he and his supposed father are continually running foul of each other. Eirick comes home from his wild-oats sowing, has a change of heart, wants to become a monk. Olav thinks that might be a good idea. But in a year Eirick is back again; he was not meant for monkhood. As Olav grows older and more dour...