Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton game Yale disregarded the mud and wind to roll over the Tigers for 300 yards without throwing a forward pass. Frank scored on the first play to become the first Big Three player to accomplish that feat in a Yale-Harvard-Princeton fame...
Harvard's 15-0 win over Davidson, on the other hand, did little to lead the team along the road of progress. In the mud and sloppiness of last Saturday holding the ball was simply a liability, and Harvard kicked just as often as they got it, waiting all the time for the breaks...
...beauty of the book lies in its treatment, in its precise and vivid descriptions of Flemish country life and customs. Van der Meersch has a gift (aided here by highly sympathetic Translator Hopkins) for conveying the mud and mist of the low-lying Belgian country, the bleakness of its villages, the hard craft and knockabout hilarity of its inhabitants. To describe them he strays frequently, and to good effect, from the path of his narrative. Best scenes: a country woman dressing, layer by layer, in her go-to-market clothes; description of a cockfight; Breughel-esque picture of a village...
GREAT LEVELER - Thomas Frederick Woodley-Stackpole ($3.50). Cautious mud-removal job on "the most despicable, malevolent and morally deformed character who has ever risen to high power in America," clubfooted, sardonic, bachelor Thaddeus Stevens, Lincoln's powerful House whip, hard-bitten champion of the Reconstruction Act, the 14th Amendment, Andrew Johnson's impeachment...
...Bill Hutchinson scored against undefeated Harvard in the first quarter. Just after it began to rain in the third quarter he ran 55 yards for another touchdown. Before the game ended Dartmouth's Hutchinson had scored again, this time in a heavy fog and ankle-deep mud. Score...