Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muchado on hearing these lascivious runtors threatened to withdraw from the show. Armband took this is stride, saying fire till you seeurgglt flash trash mask crask umguggle...
...teacher, Nadi insists on strict observance of the punctilio of fencing, even to a show of courtesy toward the judges-for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect. In saluting an opponent, a Nadi fencer must hold his mask in his left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...
...When I see a fencer smile under his mask I know he cannot be very good...
...first of these vernal mistakes is a rather loose-knit little clique instigated by someone known only to close subordinates as "The Howl." To everybody else "The Howl" looks like a loose-knit booby wearing a Win With Willkie mask and carrying a machete (a loose-knit pocket knife) and scaring the devil out of a couple of characters he found playing pinball in the lower reaches of J entry (left stairway...
...brought the turning point in 1942-1943 Harvard basketball, and the Merriwell fadeout of Athletic Council, PBH, Student Council president, Captain Bunks Burditt. After Princeton's high-scoring Palmer, who led with 16 points, had put his team seven up from the foul line, Burditt rid of the troublesome mask, and Hyde, assisted by Dillon and Hennessey, rampaged for a total of 13 points while the Tiger big guns, outjumped under the backboards and their shooting erratic as a result of Crimson defensive tenacity, were fatally silent...