Word: jousting
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...Davis and Mr. Litchfield until last fortnight. Then they agreed to drop the cheap lines they market under their own names, tried to coax Mr. Firestone into the scheme. Mr. Firestone would have none of it. It would be an admission of defeat in his long, long joust with the mail-order tire...
...dynast Robert Marion La Follette kept getting himself elected regularly as Governor or Senator. When he died in 1925, his son & namesake inherited his seat in the Senate, his power at home. Two years ago his younger son. Philip Fox La Follette, first charged into the State arena to joust Walter Jodok Kohler, stalwart Republican, out of the governorship. In last week's primaries Mr. Kohler, middle-aged manufacturer of plumbing fixtures ("Kohler of Kohler") won back the Republican gubernatorial nomination together with the distinction of being the first man to defeat a La Follette since...
...secred and muravyingly wisechairmanlooking. Now whim the sillybilly of a Gracehoper had jingled through a jungle of love and debts and jangled through a jumble of life in doubts afterworse, wetting with the bim-blebeaks, drikking with nautonects, bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon) he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo pooveroo quant a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph or vosch to sirch for grub for his corapusse or to find a hospes. alick, he wist gnit...
This, the first annual brain joust between Harvard and Yale tens, was the result of a $125,000 gift of Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard. The gift provides a prize of $5,000 worth of books each year to the winning team...
...lined up against Miss Blake and Miss Edith Sigourney in the doubles event finals. Again Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, added to her laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery resounded as the hardy matron, paired with G. Peabody Gardner Jr., walked forth for a third joust-this time the finals of the mixed doubles. Mrs. Wightman still displayed no sign of fatigue; gave Mr. Gardner excellent support; helped earn her third title of the day, defeating two promising youngsters, Miss Sarah Palfrey and Malcolm Hill...