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...settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including Sundays. Though he did not feel qualified to be a spiritual mentor, he was religious in the British sense, never missed his daily exercise...
Fifth Game. Aldridge, winning pitcher of the second game, faced Coveleskie, whom he had previously beaten. The fourth inning was noteworthy because the by-this-time popular "Joey" Harris hit a homerun-his third of the series. With the score 2 to 2 in the seventh inning, Moore, young Pittsburgh second baseman, drew a base on balls. Carey singled. Cuyler singled. "Sarah" Barnhart singled. Two runs had scored, and Washington advocates were crying: "Cheese!" and "Bummer!" at Coveleskie. The Polish pitcher (who won three World Series games in 1920 when he pitched for Cleveland against Brooklyn) trod slowly with downcast...
Well, just ask senior Dustin DeNunzio and junior Joey Killar. The two star wrestlers became All-Americans this past week at the NCAA tournament in Penn State, an honor reserved only for the top eight wrestlers in each weight class...
...Joey wrestled well and lost to some very tough guys," DeNunzio said...
...precautions taken by each crew, not to allow the other side to see them at their best, may be confidently set down to man's inborn love of outdoing his fellow by sly means as well as by the exercise of power. Every collegian is a Joey Bagstock, who hugs himself if he feels that he is 'devilish...