Word: jug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much to redeem the triteness of this theme. And when Mr. Cagney turns out to have a heart of gold the picture degenerates into another blurb about the nobility of gangsters. "Down on the Farm," a Jones Family feature which concerns corn, both of the cob and jug variety, is naive but rather amusing...
...whose innocuous drowsiness no Northerner can ever quite fathom, and whose charm no New England town can ever quite equal--for a Southerner. Charlottesville is Virginia, and Virginia is Charlottesville. There is no escaping this cycle. Further south, in the Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion of the brew on which he has been...
...Henry L. Williams, startled a select circle of U.S. football fans by holding Fielding H. Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie, Minnesota and Michigan have furnished the No. 1 collegiate rivalry of the Midwest: the struggle for the Little Brown Jug that served as a water jug that day.* Through the decades Minnesota, winner of eleven Big Ten titles, became famed for its powerful lines that looked-to opposing teams-like a nightmare of Primo Cameras; Michigan, winner of 14 Big Ten titles, became famed for its speedy passing and tricks...
...knew what it was all about, Minnesota had crossed the goal line and had kicked the extra point-something that Michigan had failed to do earlier in the quarter. With Van Every's surprise attack, Minnesota, outplayed in every department, had in time's nick defended the Jug...
...Michigan-owned jug, it was held as hostage by Minnesota in 1903, was later painted half maroon (for Minnesota), half blue (for Michigan). Of the 20 games played since 1903, Michigan has won 13, Minnesota six, one was tied...