Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rollin Kirby, ace of Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby...
...Minnesota, a gigantic lineman named Bronko Nagurski outran his team mates in a race. Observing this, Dr. Spears, Minnesota's coach, summoned the rapid hulk and took him out of the line. Dr. Spears was looking for a successor to famed Herb Joesting who pushed his backfield bravely along last season. He regarded Bronko Nagurski as a potential fullback and, having noticed his celerity, he suggested, immediately, this position to the enormous player. So powerfully did Nagurski function in fullback capacity that a nickname ("The Big Nag") was found for him and he became the first of the autumn heroes...
...field goal during the last three minutes of play gave the 1932 football team a 3 to 0 victory over Exeter on Saturday. E. B. Wood '32, first year quarterback, booted the ball over from the 10-yard line for the winning points...
...Crimson scores were made by W. R. Harper '30 who crossed the broad stripe twice on short line bucks and French who slid over from the ten yard line for the last touchdown...
...reviewing the Crimson line, Sapp said that although it did not quite measure up to the backfield in calibre it was consistently aggressive...