Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont Temple -- "The Iron Horse...
...Topsfield Fair in Boston a fortnight ago, two sleek, kindly horses-a white and a chestnut- followed a young woman up a runway to a diving platform. Below, an announcer was explaining how these Percherons had never been shod with iron to pull men's burdens, but as foals followed their dams over water-drops that grew as they acquired boldness, how lumps of sugar had substituted for whips in their training. On the runway, 60 feet up, the horses whinnied softly, and pushed their noses at electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched...
Tremont Temple -- "The Iron Horse...
...occult powers exclusively for the CRIMSON during the coming gridiron season. Mr. Forecast is universally recognized as one of the leading football critics in the East. He first came into prominence two years ago when he succeeded in convincing five of his six Freshman advisees that it was an iron-clad. Harvard tradition for Freshmen to give one of their Yale football tickets to their student advisor. Mr. Forecast, or Joe, as he allows CRIMSON editors to call him, offered last year to put his monumental football knowledge to the use of the University. From his seat in QQ, Section...
...arrayed in checkerboard golf-pantings, ring-streaked stockings like a baseball player's, a panama and an eloquent watch-fob. On the first hole the tall man drove into the woods. He did not swear; only a tyro begins swearing on the first hole. Instead, he took an iron and got out on the fairway. This successful feat appeared somewhat to excite him. He took three putts on the green, and a caddy wrote 6 on his scorecard. Watch Fob was one up. On Hole 2, Watch Fob put his approach up behind a tree, and his clumsy attempt...