Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fumble, sloshed to Yale's first touchdown against Harvard in seven years. Since 1928 he has been on Yale's coaching staff in charge of scrubs and as chief scout. He is short, thick, dainty on his feet, exceedingly fast. On and off the field he is quiet. He does not scold his players, does not give fight talks, convinces them that they know what to do in a game and need only do it. Personally popular, Ducky Pond was spared the ire of disgruntled alumni, who vowed to "get" Athletic Director Farmer for ignoring their wishes...
...Baby Brats" at famed Brattle Hall. He did not seek popularity and few of his classmates, including Junius Spencer Morgan, Sumner Welles, Nicholas Roosevelt, Gilbert Seldes, noticed the shy, towheaded, unprepossessing youngster from Dorchester. Those who did became his fast friends, won by a quick, appealing smile, a quiet humor and good sense...
With rows of red figures marching across the balance sheet, with Clarence Hungerford Mackay so hard-fixed that he can no longer afford to turn them back with the quiet signing of a check, the directors of the proud New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week sent out an SOS for $500,000. Seventy of New York's richest music patrons first heard the help cry in the Park Avenue home of Harry Harkness Flagler. Already, Mr. Flagler informed them, there is a deficit of $150,000. The season's box-office receipts amount to $60,000 less than...
...Adolph Lewisohn's New York home one afternoon last week and practiced three hours on his violin. That evening Fiddler Einstein was to play in a concert for the benefit of his scientist friends in Berlin. Old Mr. Lewisohn made his servants tiptoe through the halls, kept mousey quiet himself, not once attempting to entertain his ever-so-important guest with the German folk-songs he dearly loves to sing...
...Blaik, assistant coach at Army, should he made Yale's new football coach. Other papers continued to ballyhoo Kipke. Finally Coach Kipke gave an interview to the Associated Press at Ann Arbor in which he said he had definitely decided to stay at Michigan. This report served to quiet the story for three weeks. But right after the Christmas holidays it started again, more noisily than ever...