Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty hard job to decide how to place the money in Harvard's game with Holy Cross tomorrow," was the verdict of "Lone Star" Dietz, mentor of the Boston "Redskins" professional football team when reached last night by telephone. "Harvard has a very good team this year but so has Holy Cross. It certainly will be an interesting match in any event...
...Professional football, I really believe, is much cleaner than college football," "Lone Star" continued in response to a query, "and it's clean for the reason that the pre players are fighting for their livelihood and any breach of the unwritten law results in the players being ganged. Among professionals there is a fact agreement not to resort to dirty factics. Because of this the coaches teach the players how to work just as effectively by playing clean. The men-cooperate by keeping in training and taking a genuine interest in the game. The result is that the game...
Last December England paid its installment in full, hoping that this lone honor would give power to its pleas for cancelling the account. This winter will find the situation altered, with an English government unwilling to assume the political dishonor of being the only one not to default. The United States, having taken neither official satisfaction from the full payment of December, nor official umbrage at the token of June, has left it in the able hands of Mr. Oltamberlain to shift from business ethics to hard reality. America must make the same change in its own attitude...
...Avenue chattered a smoky-tailed vanguard of motorcycle police. Out stepped spectacled Major General Dennis E. Nolan, commander of the 2nd Corps Area and Marshal of the parade. Along came Administrator Whalen, who once was Police Commissioner. Behind them, on the parade's lone official float, rode two symbolic beauties, "Miss Liberty" and "Miss NRA," the Misses Elise & Doris Ford of Brooklyn, Howard Chandler Christie's models. When the head of the parade reached the Public Library at 42nd Street, Grover Whalen and General Nolan joined General Hugh Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York and prognathous, bag-jowled...
...Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State's lone Representative-at-large, succeeding Lewis Williams Douglas, now Director of the Budget. So great is her personal popularity that she defeated two male rivals more than 4-to-1. Republicans did not even bother to nominate an opponent for her in the November election. No one was happier over her success than...