Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructions to the Cambridge policemen were brief and to the point. While the squad cars stood in front of the Lampoon building the short wave radio mumbled in curt and ferocious tones from the Central Square Bastille, "If they act up, kick THEM in the pants! That...
...Kirkland kicked off to Adams. Here the 'Coasters, with Whitman flinging the ball to Bixby, Lucey, and Lewis, perforated the Deacon secondary, bringing the ball to pay dirt on a short toss to Lewis. The deciding point was made on the identical pass play from a fake place kick formation...
...fingers, slick as a chorus boy's hair, Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could a first-night audience, half drawn from...
...secret to the Vag that he probably could tuck that pigskin under his wing and run like hell for a touchdown against most any opposition. And he's a pretty keen fellow when it comes to calling plays, too, for that matter. Mix them up--run, pass, kick, fight for that extra yard--keep the old legs pumping all the time. He has a very distinct idea of how it feels to get out into the clear and watch the safety man dive at him desperately--and miss. It feels grand. And he can take it when the going gets...
...criticism voiced recently by a Harvard lecturer is true--that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities of growth than that Duke University will launch a crusade against the use of tobacco." He points out that Harvard's closest relatives are its financial...