Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected Mr. Davies was made U. S. Commissioner of Corporations, later upped to chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He was one of the bright young men of the Wilson Administration, and from another of that group he still has an old photograph inscribed. 'To my old side kick," signed "Franklin Roosevelt." He declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General of the Philippines, and elected in 1918 to run for Senator in Wisconsin. He was beaten by Republican Irvine Lenroot by a bare 2,500. So he returned to Washington...
Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...
...touchdowns, the last on a long pass by Frank to Captain Larry Kelley. Early in the fourth period, Princeton got to Yale's 3-yd. line. Yale held, and its star punter, Dave Colwell, who was operated on for appendicitis a month ago, hurried into the game to kick out. He succeeded but a minute later was knocked unconscious tackling Kaufman on the Yale 5-yd. line. Princeton's Fullback Bill Lynch plunged through tackle for a touchdown and Princeton was ahead, 23-10-20. In any other game that would have ended the fireworks, but Frank uncorked...
Biggest crowd that ever watched a North Carolina home game (34,000) saw the week's longest run, when Ace Parker caught a kick-off in his end zone, scurried 105 yards for the second of four touchdowns that won for Duke...
Beaten by Wesleyan and two touchdowns behind at the end of the first quarter, underdog Amherst nosed out Williams 14-10-13-the margin representing Pagnotta's place-kick-to end Little Three rivalry in a triple...