Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guest of Mrs. Jardine attended the advance showing of the Department of Agriculture's annual Chrysanthemum Show; she received at the White House Donna Antoinette de Martino, wife of the Italian Ambassador to the U. S., Countess Volpi, and Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Joe Nevin, "typical boy," called on Mrs. Coolidge and told her of plans for model boys' clubs; she received some 500 Vassar alumnae meeting at Washington...
...fickle Tiger went wild and made a big killing on Saturday, the Army mule balked in more than mulish obstinacy, a Boston college back missed a crucial goal after touchdown, and three of Joe Forecast's predictions collapsed without a murmur. Such trifling disasters as these, however, hardly ruffled the calm surface of his self-satisfaction, for he had defied a legion of sport editors, the table of comparative scores and the whole city of Providence in picking Harvard to win, and by the margin of three points is his prediction justified...
...departing from my hitherto unbroken rule of refraining from picking the winner of Harvard games by forecasting the Harvard-Brown game today. Harvard will win, or else let the name of Joe Forecast be dragged forever in the dust. Harvard will win, or else never again let the pen of Joe Forecast be dipped to ink. Harvard will win or else Joe Forecast will lose his far-flung fame, his reputation, and his shirt...
What are odds, be they 2 to 1, 3 to 1, or 5 to 1? What are 200-pound lines and 10-second backfields? With courage in their hearts, with iron in their souls, with the god of battles above them, and Joe Forecast on their side, the men of Harvard will make the greatest comeback of the season's gridiron history...
...Dear Joe...