Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James Triplett Haxall, 79, retired banker, famed Princeton alumnus, whose 65-yard placement kick (Yale-Princeton game, Nov. 30, 1882), is one of football's oldest unbroken records; in Baltimore...
...York Herald Tribune pounced on another Chase definition: "Physical investment-stuff you can kick with your foot: financial investment-stuff you can crumple in your hand," and quoted from the record...
With his customary bull-in-china-shop finesse Mr. Dies managed to kick the chairman of the Republican National Committee, redheaded John Hamilton, out of the subversive bag. Mr. Hamilton, it seems, had been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were...
...With a kick like a cannon ball...
...Newark, N. J., Mrs. Frances MacFarquhar, suing for divorce, submitted her diary in evidence. Excerpts: "January 28-Blackened my eye because I bought a fifteen-cent cake and did not turn over the change; March 13-He tripped me and tried to kick me through a window; March 26-He knocked me into the bathtub; June 12-He chased me with a hammer. . . ." Plaintiff MacFarquhar got the divorce...