Word: gibraltarism
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...coaches and experts who have watched him and his name has figured on all the "All" teams chosen so far. Ticknor's forte has been his sensational defensive work; his remarkable ability to diagnose the opposing plays coupled with his great strength has made him a veritable Rock of Gibraltar against which the fiercest rushes have dashed hopelessly...
...woman once called up to ask for full details about the rock of Gibraltar-its weight, size, and height; and the most remarkable part of that story was that we were able to give them to her!" Thus answered Karl Dahlquist, for seven years in charge of the general University information bureau, when asked about some of the inner workings of the office...
More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...Graf Zeppelin made a sweet passage from Friedrichshafen (on the German-Swiss border), down the Rhone Valley, across the Gulf of Lions, toward Gibraltar. Then the crankshaft of one of her five engines broke. Near Cartagena, Spain, Commander Eckener turned her back towards Friedrichshafen...
...last week when Mr. Rockefeller Jr. was gazing at the Rock of Gibraltar, en route to Egypt on an expedition with famed Digger James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller office in Manhattan made public a letter which he had written to the stockholders of Standard Oil of Indiana...