Word: leashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense men Jim Roberts played the stellar game, paving the way for Hovenanian's tally. With Dick Claflin he put up a stubborn defense that kept the Tigers under the leash for most of the struggle. Thorny Brown did his part, and although Ash Emerson was responsible for the first Tiger goal, he deflected the third period shots that would have turned the game over to Princeton...
...have belonged to Marie Antoinette. To be near her collection of birds and monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the première of Porgy and Bess. Next night she went home to St. Louis to see her mother who used to be a washwoman...
...less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash. He collects, as a matter of fact, all manner of weapons and murderous devices. His manners are anything but mild. Only dogs, old ladies and children escape his tongue lashings...
...belief that the deed was effected far too cleverly to admit the faltering technique of amateurs--however practiced they may be in pursuit of dame publicity. A great deal more basis is there for the surmisal that the thing was purely an inside job, and that Daniel, collar, leash, attractive physiognomy and all--fell victim to dissension within his own camp. His ministry has not been wholly a successful one, and other ministers, more handsome perhaps than Daniel, have fallen to the assassin's blade for less...
...admired the immense dignity, weighty as a Newfoundland's, with which she comported herself in the ring. But Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston did not win their hearts until, at the very moment when Judge Jarrett was naming her U. S. Dog of the Year, she slipped her leash and frisked across the ring as saucily as though her name were...