Word: generalship
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Trials for the Freshman interdormitory boxing tournament, held yesterday afternoon in Hemenway Gymnasium, resulted in a victory for L. Coolidge of Standish over H. S. Mills, also of Standish, in the 160 pound class. Coolidge was the aggressor throughout the bout, and displayed excellent ring generalship...
Said Senator Borah of Idaho: "Judge Kenyon knows more about law books than about battleships"? a remark which led many to suspect that the Judge might accept the Attorney-Generalship should it fall vacant...
...team of Presidents I shall put Coolidge in as quarterback. He is the weight and size for a quarterback. He gets in every play as no other President I have ever seen does. He follows the ball like one possessed. He handles it with fingers that never slip. His generalship is never caught asleep. He eats, drinks, lives the game. In the whole list of Presidents there isn't another quarter like...
...choice of Dooley of Dartmouth as quarterback in preference to Richeson, the Yale star, Coach Fisher said, "Dooley certainly looked good against us. Any quarterback looks good when everything he tries works. Richeson didn't have a chance to show his best against us, but he adapted his generalship to the condition of the field, and his judgment was excellent. On a dry field he might have been much better. On the other hand, he might have been a disappointment. No one can say what would have happened under normal weather conditions. That is what makes the season...
There were "feline amenities" in plenty among what the Capital papers term "our DARling DARters". Mrs. Snodgrass, Mrs. Winkle and Miss Tupman, each with a "ticket" all her own, fought with stubborn bitterness for the President-Generalship. The "most aristocratic ladies in the country" argued and expostulated for long hours on their relative merits adjourned to drink innumerable cups of tea, and returned to cast their ballots and lose their dignity. When feelings ran high Miss Tupman suddenly withdrew to throw her weight-hardly a lady-like performance-to Mrs. Snodgrass, and pandemonium broke loose...