Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble on a man's shirt-front...
...fast pace that was to prevail during almost the entire game. Little team play figured in either of the opening scores, but neither poke was from midice, and they were both of the variety that look easy from the press box but which look hard from in front of the net. The Crimson sextet was by no means forcing the play at the time. Morrill being bombarded by a barrage of Green drives. Captain Hardy's stick was by far the most effective in the visitors' line-up and twice he found the puck in front of the Crimson goal...
...Scott from behind the net and slipped it past Sherman to put the Crimson in the lead. Dartmouth then started a drive to even the count and the Crimson defense at this point showed its mettle. At one time the entire Harvard team was prone on the ice in front of the cage as the Green forwards swarmed down in an effort to ram the puck past Morrill's invulnerable pads. With only half a minute to play Ellison made the best play of the game. The Crimson's captain took the puck on a sweep from behind...
...Philadelphia, one George F. Dobbin, contractor, was told by a maid that two gentlemen wished to see him on business. Going to the front door he faced two pistols. The gentlemen told him not to make a noise. While they were going through his pockets Contractor Dobbin's baby toddled into the vestibule. Mr. Dobbin told the baby to go upsairs. "Then," says Mr. Dobbin, "in order not to alarm my wife, I told the men to talk about business. The smaller of the two, who seemed to have a pretty good education, said...
This final book of the trilogy shows the triumph of the Single Command, the end of the War. Tietjens is in it to the finish, in very real and dismal front trenches where a man cannot stand up. When it is over he stands up, physically and spiritually. He foregoes revenge upon unjust superior officers, lays aside the battered taboos of the civilization he has helped preserve, returns to London, poverty and Valentine...