Word: pelting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson looked like a real ball club in the first half, playing rings around the Indians and barely missing several more goals. Goalie Jack Penson scarcely had a workout until the beginning of the third period, when the Dartmouth forwards and the rain simultaneously began to pelt...
...Bavarian adolescent Ludwig Bemelmans was known to his family as a Lausbub, or Katzenjammer kid. At 16, when he was shipped to the U. S., his Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences...
...that he is the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and poses for pictures in a simple leopard-skin loincloth (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936), inserted the following advertisement in the New York Times: "LIVE LEOPARD CUB WANTED; coat perfectly spotted. . . ." Explanation: Mr. Atlas was dissatisfied with his current pelt because it was irregularly marked...
...arrival in Cambridge, there hasn't been a Yale victory since 1933, that 14-13 major catastrophe last November; and perhaps most important of all, Albie Booth's last minutes drop kick which smashed the undefeated record of Barry Wood's team in 1931. Oh yes, a Bulldog pelt is always a welcome sight in the Crimson trophy room, but one was never more eagerly awaited than that belonging to this year's litter of "Ducky" Pond's invincible blue pups...
Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him with clever invective when he interviews them in the kitchen...