Word: poke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the hockey season ended last year, with the Ottawa Senators world's champions, critics said "Watch the Rangers." The blue-shirted New York team were picked to win this year because they were fast and clever, because their centre, Frank Boucher, is the smartest poke-checker in the game, because their two bald defense men, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson and Clarence ("Taffy") Abel, are heavy and efficient, because Bill Cook, who skates with the rhythm of a moose running, is the highest-paid team captain in the National Hockey League, because Bun Cook, his brother who looks like Lindbergh...
...great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near Albany, Ga., where his estate is known as " 'Possum Poke on 'Possum Lane." Had any Michigan newspaper desired to reclaim "one of the most prolific writers in this country" as a Michigander, it would only have had to point to Dr. Osborn's permanent home at Sault Ste. Marie. But then, had argument arisen, still a third state could...
...Mark's team Potter Palmer, defense player, exhibited a very effective poke check. The schoolboy offense was weak; after the first period the three forwards rarely came within striking distance of the Harvard goal...
Housewife. ". . . It is still every woman's ideal to have a five-room cottage in the country, thank goodness. . . . Women must be taught not to poke loaves of bread with their fingers or squeeze dill pickles." ?President Mrs. Franklin W. Fritchey* of the National Housewives Alliance...
...when the newspaper correspondents of that city, with the politically great as their guests, met to hold the annual meeting of the Grid Iron Club. It is the one occasion when they can all be good fellows together. The legislative lions are supposed to smile when the literary jackals poke good natured fun at their foibles and failures, and it is an iron clad rule that none of the guests' speeches shall appear in print. Heretics have whispered that the addresses would not be catastrophic if they were released. Certainly the privilege of mocking the mighty was not abused...