Word: nippers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wearing white gloves was fair-haired Leopold Stokowski, exulting not only over the tour to come but because there is a prospect of a European trip next season. Cameras clicked rapidly while Frances A. Wister of the Orchestra Board presented Conductor Stokowski with a fox-terrier pup named Nipper. The New York Philharmonic players sent money to buy each of the travelers a beer. Led by Trumpeter Saul Caston, the Orchestra's brasses blew out Auld Lang Syne, played Anchors Aweigh for "all aboard." Thus the Philadelphia Orchestra was off last week on a five-week cross-country tour...
...stationary serimmage, Nipper Knapp and Joe Kennedy took the places of Kelly and Dubiet on the A team, and George Roberts and Ecker were in the backfield along with Struck and Ford. Arthur Oakes, recently promoted from the Jayvees, played in the B team backfield, and impressed many observers as the hardest driving man on the field...
Although the Varsity forwards are slightly weakened by the absence of several regulars, the line is built around Nipper Knapp, whose strength is as the strength of ten. Against Princeton in the first game, and against the French Rugby Club, Knapp played a stellar game throughout the full seventy minutes, and is expected to quell the men from Tigertown...
...linked and the palms of hands held against each other with the fingers interlaced and sang a song to Mr. Petrullo. He played them a song on his portable phonograph. Then he gave them images of a creature which they, a dogless people, had never seen. The figurines represented Nipper, the Victor dog listening to "His Master's Voice." Two clowns painted black & red, with nutshell rattles on their right ankles, did a dance and played a tune on pan pipes...
...country, for during these three days she will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone at the Eton-Harrow dance at Hurlingham, and Monday send the "nipper" back to school, along with the other small Etonians (under 5 ft. 4 in.) in toppers and truncated jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear which the school wears in all seasons. For the rest...