Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tied for first place, each team had gained the same number of laps over the rest of the pack. William John ("Torchy'') Peden, 27, a rangy Canadian with a flaming mop above his scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull...
None of them saw or heard a bedraggled bundle of feathers whisk out of the lowering sky, plop softly on the Manhattan's sun deck. Soprano Mario, striding briskly, stumbled over it. Mrs. Garson hurried up, agreed that it looked like a mop. To Vibrato it looked like a warm hideaway. He hopped out of his mistress' muff, tried to bury himself in its folds. Only then did the two women discover that the "mop" was an exhausted...
...game. While the game was being held up due to the unexplained absence of the ball, the Dunster House Band, disguised by patriarchal beards, paraded up the field playing what was thought to have been "Hit the Line for Harvard," and climaxed its march by successfully hurling a silvered mop over the goal posts...
Last year the sages of the ages had it all doped out that Yale could win and the Blue proceeded to mop up the mud and slime with the crimson jerseys in a masterful fashion. Harvard had lost to Brown and the Army and had eked out bare margins over Dartmouth and Holy Cross. To be sure, Yale hadn't won any championships, but at least she had lost by smaller edges. So the debacle in the Bowl did not surprise the dopesters. But someone is going to get fooled today, for there probably could not be found...
Between times, because he has no angel to finance his expeditions, Father Hubbard goes after lecture money. Then Easterners may see his pleasant face, his tousled mop of black hair, his excellent motion pictures, and hear him tell in his abrupt, boyish voice what he has seen and done. But he dislikes cities, is always curious to be off to Alaska. Last spring he was off to investigate the geological and archeological history of the Aleutian Islands, and last week he was back in Seattle with news...