Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unrelieved throughout the entire-game, Holy Cross's goalie, Soccorso, let the puck slip by twice in both the second and-third divisions. Kronoff of the visiting icemen perked up in the final period, scoring two points, one unassisted, through the valiant defense of John Knowles...
...Eminence's old tin bath. He paid the customary Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater, whose mustaches hung "pendulous in the shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat...
Better Half. In Windsor, Ont., Goalie Jim Hogan stopped half of a flying hockey puck with his armpit, saw the second half skim into the net, protested when officials allowed the goal...
Kentucky-born Cliff Berryman went to Washington when he was 17, as a protege of Kentucky's Senator Joe Blackburn who had admired his youthful talent. Earning his living as patent office messenger, he got his art education "for 20? a week" by copying the political cartoons in Puck and Judge. He sold his first cartoon to the Washington Post in 1889, got a regular job there two years later. In 1907 he switched to the Star, where his daily front-page cartoon remained a Washington landmark until...
Take Julian Crocker, for instance. This emotional Junior, who handled the hockey team through its super-successful season this winter, epitomizes all that a manager should be. To see Julian grow ecstatic over his beloved puck-handlers is like nothing in all this world. Arthur Sampson was so intrigued by all of Julian's spirit that he devoted two of his Herald columns to the Crocker legend--probably the first time in history a college manager was ever so glorified...