Word: nod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash...
...Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe trio, until the scores were as authentic as he could make them. After the concert, critics gave editor and performers a vigorously genial nod; so, perhaps, did Papa Haydn's harried head...
...desk and write in those great red and black law notchooks. Next came Phil who worked just as hard as Gregory, but he seemed to enjoy it a little more. He would sink deep into the armchair, suck on his pipe which was seldom lit, and nod at the thick volume propped up on his knees. Sometimes it was hard to tell if he was asleep or just reading...
...thrills of the evening started with Bud Wilcox racing Art Bosworth to a draw in the backstroke leg of the medley. Then, after Cutler and Powers had garnered first and second in the furlong, Nod Goldwasser, Junior sprinter, annexed a fighting second-place in the 50. Goldwasser's career in the pool now reads like a story-book. He has graduated from the ranks of the House swimmers to the Varsity reserves, and finally has outdone himself in first-rate competition to return a dynamic 24.4 against Brown, beating Matt Soltysiak, Bruin iron-man, for second...
...Crimson team in the overtime. Ross seemed in have the advantage for the first part of the match, but Foshay kept escaping from Ross with a smoothly working reverse switch. Finally in the overtime of what seemed to be an impossible bout to decide, Foshay received the nod from the referee an the wrestler who showed the greatest aggressiveness...