Word: gree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Numerous tackles of all shapes and sizes cavorted at Soldiers Field yesterday, but some of them, like Chet Pierce and large Verne Miller, were unfit for action tomorrow. At the end of the practice, Dick Harlow was wondering how long the others would last against the Big Gree. "I'm not exactly up in the clouds," was Dick's comment...
...studied law, got her de gree from the University of Texas, became parliamentarian of the Texas Legislature and wrote a book on parliamentary law. At 22, Oveta codified Texas' banking laws. At 24, she ran for the State Legislature and was beaten - the first setback in a face-ever-forward career...
...dealings with him, he aphorized on the heartaches of friendship: "Let a man come close enough and he'll clutch you like a drowning person, and down you both go." Resenting a Harvard professor's literary criticisms, Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it." When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert...