Word: pete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy game, the Virginia squad got off to a fast start when Pete Nistad, who specializes in lefthanded forward passing, completed two long tosses for scores in the first half. Later the Middles' power plays began functioning, and Navy pulled the game out of the fire in the last period...
Fraser Curtis was imported from the Yardling field to throw passes, impersonating left-handed Pete Nistad, Cavalier sharp-shooter who pitched two touchdowns against Navy, Curtis is the only southpaw passer on both Varsity and Freshman squads...
...second was irreparable. In arranging the series the U. S. Polo Association had agreed to let the winners of the U. S. Open Championship represent the country. By substituting Winston Guest for Jock Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2, the team-with Pete Bostwick and Tommy Hitchcock at Nos. 1 and 3-could have been improved but the U. S. Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts made the second game at Meadow Brook last week less one-sided but the upshot...
Just as he lands his job on a big-time program, Kit's family sees through his insults, she through his songs. Unhappily obstinate, she heads for Arizona and marriage to the bounder. How Pete, in the middle of his first broadcast before a swank crowd, succeeds in stopping her is too ridiculous to be funny: While his partner holds the radio station at bay by pretending to have a gun, Crooner Pete breaks off singing, babbles impassioned pleas to Kit over...
...noise whose nearest printable equivalent is "Su-ee Su-ee Su-ee-Pig-ee Pig-ee Pig-ee." If done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland County...