Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre (with palm...
There is a college president who will get fired if his institution loses its objective game of the football season, and a football team which plays because a woman's eyes are bright, and a Palm-olive halfback who wears an assumed name and a mean look and recovers a jumble and makes a touchdown, and saves the game, and the woman, while the audience holds everything in suspense...
Noted names, famous formations, and sanguinary struggles fill the history of a 24-year series of gridiron contests between the University and the University of Pennsylvania. Twenty games were played between 1881 and 1905, and the Crimson hosts bore off the laurel and the palm in 13 encounters...
...would suggest that he take a walk around the Beecher statue in Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose...
...Legionaries who stayed ashore in Genoa commented up the reserve, the dignity, the almost disdain of Fascist Italy. How it contrasted with demonstrative France! But soon "buddies" were saluting camerati; soon they were imitating the Fascist salute (right arm forward, raised at 45°, palm open downward) and solemnly saluting one another with...