Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great founder William Rockhill Nelson 50 years ago kept a list of persons who must not be mentioned in the Star's columns. Moreover, Colonel Nelson being portly, no Star cartoonist dared caricature a fat man. The present-day taboo of the Star and its morning running-mate, the Times, is less explicable, more picturesque. For reasons of his own Publisher George Baker Longan will not permit snakes to be pictured or mentioned...
Concerning family life in New Ireland: "The selection of a mate is a simplified matter. . . . The young swain (usually about twelve) calls in a love magician . . . [who] casts a spell over the girl. ... If the spell works the girl comes to the man. ... If it doesn't work no fault is found with the magician's services; it is assumed that some enemy magician in another village is casting an evil spirit over the pair to thwart the match...
...female ejects the eggs he fertilizes them, takes them in his mouth one by one and carefully places them in the bubblenest. After she has laid the eggs the female is through, and unless she is removed from the aquarium, her mate will kill her. He zealously guards the nest until the young are hatched, and even guards the young for three or four days until they have developed enough to care for themselves. Then, having performed his family duties, the male will turn cannibal and eat the young he has been guarding, unless he is also removed...
...motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came a crash of glass and a mighty splash-the animal diving through a window into the choppy harbor...
Devens is Coach Mitchell's probable choice for pitching duty today and the Sophomore fast ball artist will be caught by Fincke, who was his battery mate in the Freshman nine last year. Fincke is in there because Batchelder, regular catcher, suffered an injury in the Colby game, on Tuesday, that will keep him out for another week. Devens is after his fourth victory. HARVARD SYRACUSE Mays, 2b. 2b., Hayman Nugent, s.s. 1b., Beagle McGrath, c.f. c., Horowitz Ticknor, l.f. c.f., Stevens Wood, 1b 3b., Topol Des Roches, 3b l.f., Stoneberg Bassett, r.f. r.f., Frank Fincke, c. s.s., Walkov Devens...