Word: messe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are Ransome of Beverly, Miscuraca of Gloucester, Murphy of Newton, and others ad infinitum. There is a fellow named Driscoll, who plays end for Dedham. This latter gent has been knocked out cold in practically every game he plays. They tape him up, and he goes in to mess up the opponents' backfield again. He might look good against Columbia. He might look good against Army, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, and all the other delorous names on the Harvard football schedule...
...Commons. This margin is too thin to withstand severe crises, Laborites think. They believe that by next spring they will be either over the fence or crumpled up in front of it. Said one: "we're determined to have a damned good shot at getting out of this mess...
...place, the CRIMSON supports the present city clerk, John B. Hynes. He is not a strong candidate, promising neither sweeping reforms nor offering a positive program to eliminate bossism, but he is an experienced public servant. He can probably untangle better than any of the other candidates the mess in which Curley has left the city's finances. Hynes was the acting mayor of Boston for the five months that Curley was in jail at Danbury. During that time, though he did not clean the Curley appointees out of office, he opened to the public all bidding for city contracts...
Navajo, but the priests have a religion for all men, white or red or black . . . The Ten Commandments are a ladder which you climb in this life to live with God in heaven. If you don't, you won't find anything except a mess in the hereafter...
...plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston. His alleged motive: to cut Johnston out with Miss Grayson. Just as angry in his denials, Kirkwood warned that any more such accusations would make him "blow the whole sordid mess wide open and let them all stew in their own juice...