Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind him strode the body of the Democrats...
...neighboring Persia. Black-fezzed and bearded, they last week shouted in Persian market places that Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi is trying to Europeanize Persia, debauch her youth, rob her people. Always ready for a fight, nomadic Arabs in South Persia rose in revolt, tried to draw into the fray the dreaded Bakhtiari, fiercest of Persian tribes...
...Holy Cross offense will take about the same form as in last week's fray, excepting the possible placing of Cahill for Shanahan at the hot corner of the diamond...
...Mount Auburn Street will open the afternoon. This will be followed by a four-in-hand obstacle race to the river bank and the waiting dories. Barring mishaps, the crews will unload after the regatta at Soldiers Field and will finish the quintathion there with the traditional diamond fray...
Displaying an excellent brand of lacrosse the Harvard team triumphed over Springfield College by an 8 to 4 score Saturday afternoon on the Business School field. Coach Madison Sayles sent 24 men into the fray in the course of the 60 minutes playing time...