Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters & Goal Posts. When Yale forged ahead in the second quarter, 7-6, Harvard's mannerly rooters sat subdued until the final period. Then their team, which had been either very good or very bad all season, got its dander up. Two Harvard touchdowns made the score 20-7. Just before the gun, a wave of substitutes ran in (a Harvard man does not get his letter unless he plays against Yale-and one play is enough). As the tide turned toward Harvard, some of the students went native, shot up crimson flares that looped across to the Yale...
...good old days, when Carnegie Tech made no bones about buying football talent, Halfback Wild Bill Donohoe was a pigskin hero. One unforgettable Saturday in 1926, after he and his teammates whittled Notre Dame down to size (19-0), Wild Bill was toasted far into the welkinrung night. But, alas for heroes, the same Wild Bill Donohoe, on the same campus, was now the goat...
...wrote to Pope Clement XIII begging him to define the bodily Assumption of Mary as "a most certain dogma of faith." Clement passed the matter on to the Holy Office. In 1863, Spain's Queen Elizabeth made the same request. Pius IX, though recognizing the Queen's good intentions, was somewhat annoyed at a temporal sovereign's interference in sacred matters. He replied: "I am not worthy to publish such a dogma. The wishes of Your Majesty, the holy wishes of Your Majesty, will no doubt some day be satisfied if the large body of the humble...
...Good Business. Little of this surprised automobile buyers very much. What was surprising was the way salesmen and dealers brazenly owned up to their grey marketeering. George E. Adlung, salesman for New York Avenue Motor Co., admitted receiving more than $1,200 in tips on only four sales. William Manuel, a salesman for Kearney, received at least $1,520 in tips this year. "Whenever I sold a car," he testified, "I expected something as a tip . . . They do it all over the country." Raymond J. Kearney, co-owner of the agency with brother Robert, admitted that his allowances on trade...
Gushed a fashion writer: "Ski wear in general has got over the whimsies and settled down to functional good looks." To many an old skier it looked as if the new functionalism-designed chiefly for women-had taken the sport right off the slopes and into the cocktail lounge...