Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peoria, Ill., Fireman Joe Turner was on the second floor of the firehouse when he heard the alarm. He leaped for the pole, started sliding, ignited matches in his breast pocket, burned his chest, was prompted to let go. The drop broke both legs. It was a false alarm...
...issued from, some remote town in Eastern Europe. Two weeks after the Woollcott-Williams conversation, the same old story landed on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune as an Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw, with the headline: PARENTS KILL RICH SON POSING AS A STRANGER Pole, Home After 18 Years In the U. S., Goes Unrecognized...
Failing to justify their three goal handicap the Harvard Varsity pole men went down to defeat before a marksman-like 110th Cavalry Hussar trio by a 13 1-2 to 6 score. Captain Tommy Davis, high scorer for the Crimson malletmen with three goals, led the offense throughout the game, but found the hard playing and accurate hitting of his erstwhile teammate, Billy McGuckin and his cohorts too much for a disorganized Varsity trio...
...break his neck is the thought of most people who confer with lean, pantherlike Secretary Achille Starace of the Fascist Party in his startling office in Rome. All about are enlarged snapshots of the Pantherman in dynamic feats of prowess: Starace jumping his horse over his racing car; Starace pole-vaulting; Starace in a soaring leap across parallel bars; Starace motorcycling at 140 kilometers per hour. Up went Starace last week to Sestrieres, swank yet popular priced winter resort. There he went snugly to bed. got up early next morning, started zipping down the ski jump. Soon Starace broke...
Climaxing several weeks of informal practice in which attention has been concentrated upon good form and upon jumping with a very short run, Harvard's Varsity and Freshman pole-vaulters will engage in a competition for height this afternoon in the Old Cage at Soldiers Field. Never in recent years has Harvard Field-Event Coach Jaakko J. Mikkola had so much material with which to attack Yale's nearly supreme vaulting tradition. The squad is composed first of two top-notch veterans, Frank Schumann '35, Varsity football guard, and J. D. Woodberry '35; then the holder of the present Freshman...