Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother act was bred to the sport in the fox-hunting country around Monkton, Md. Like their father, who came from the green Irish horse county of Kilkenny, they were earning their living as show-horse trainers while in their teens. In 1950 some friends bought them an Irish mare that showed signs of speed, and they took their stable to the races. To eke out their small winnings. Pat, the smaller of the two (he carries a solid 160 lbs. on a 5-ft.-11-in. frame), peeled off poundage and learned the rough art of the jumping jockey...
...screen with rhythm every time he moves. Furthermore, he is a superb rhythm singer. Tense, rackety, jagged with energy, his rhythms pile up, break apart, flow and jolt with all the jeer and honk and curiously impersonal impulsiveness of rush-hour traffic. And nobody can turn a blue note green the way Frankie can−a green as sour and insolent as a pickle waved beneath the moviegoer's nose...
...Dartmouth invaders finally capitulated, and as the band re-formed to play "Fair Harvard," about fifteen men of the Big Green salaamed towards the Crimson stands as a sign of surrender. Despite dented instruments and a tuba broken in half, the band blared fourth with its vigor undiminished...
Other halftime entertainment on the field included impromptu entertainment by fraternity pledges, who scrimmaged in front of the Dartmouth stands. Both teams, the "Crimson" and the "Big Green," were garbed in long underwear and tape. One hefty yardling won the game for Harvard, however, when he dashed onto the field of action and stole the football, bringing the initiation to an abrupt finish. An effort to continue the game, substituting a gander for the ball, was foiled when the fowl fled...
Using a halfback option play with devastating effect, the Green ripped at will through the Crimson defenses in the first half. Two touchdown plays, covering 26 and 14 yards respectively came on the option. This play is a neat variation on the standard quarterback option...