Word: joss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale led, going into the heavyweight bout 14-11, and Harvard needed a fall to win and a decision would draw the meet. In what was easily the feature bout of the night, Pickett of Yale threw Glendinning of Harvard in 4:32 for the Crimson grapplers' first joss in Dual competition. Winners for Harvard were Captain Brooks Cavin who won by a fall in 8:10, Lorrin Woodman who won an overtime bout from Cutler of Yale and John Harkness, who completed his second undefeated season by taking a decision from Clark of Yale...
...four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life and die in a moire silk dressing gown at the foot of a joss-house idol...
...Woman. If posterity understands present-day art. it is likely that the future will have a pretty good idea what Gertrude Stein looked like. Picasso has painted her, Picabia has drawn her. Jo Davidson has done a joss-like statue of her. Never a beauty, she is now massive, middleaged, 59, would strongly resemble a fat Jewish hausfrau were it not for her close-cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain...
Editor Balmer was sitting like a plump joss last week on the concluding parts of the Alfonso-Alexander conversations, but before reporters he dangled tempting bait. Concluding instalments would take up Alfonso's version of the cause of the de Rivera dictatorship, his own financial situation and the reasons for his decision not to live in England...
...keep night clubs, blondes, and the bottle out of little Stevie's reach. Once there Stevie took a look at all that that quaint city had to offer in the way of gestures, and finally met up with his lost love who was occupying a bunk in a joss house...