Word: pete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Hyde loses. The white-jerseyed men are Chicago's Halfback Jay Berwanger (with noseguard) and Captain Pete Zimmer. The dark-jerseyed players diving for the fumble are Michigan's Guard Carl Savage (who recovered) and Tackle Tom Austin...
...striking against War, with Communists, with a radical friend who is murdered by the Interests. Tarred with the Left brush, he is crushed by his onetime comrades of the Right. His college classmates, holding a reunion, dress as cowboys, get drunk, mumble themselves into a rage against "good old Pete.'' They climb in his window, bully his little daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take him forcibly to apologize to the college president, he orders them out profanely. One lassoes him. The connotations of the rope and the song. "Hang him to a sour apple...
When the Army wins a place on our "All" team, it does it without leaving any question in the mind as to the justice of the award. And so it is at right end where big Pete Kopcsak stands head and shoulders (literally and figuratively) above the other candidates. You have got to ask us something harder than to pick the best left tackle that has trod the Stadium sod this fall because Buzz Harvey wins without much competition. Hutchison of the Army and Kilcullen of Yale get honorable mention in this class and it looks like Hutchison...
Contributors to the American Mission to Lepers, which now supports 184 leproseries, own toy pig banks in which they deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch...
...stewards of the New York Jockey Club tackled a nasty job last week at Jamaica, L. I. A race had been won by a horse named Garden Message, owned by George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. the country's No. 1 gentleman-jockey. After the race the track veterinary found a sponge in the nose of Sweeping Light, which had finished third. Then the doctor examined Garden Message, voiced the shocking opinion that the Bostwick horse had been stimulated for the race. Garden Message's trainer stoutly denied it. For Owner Bostwick, who was honeymooning abroad, his friends protested bitterly...