Word: romps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes six years ago removed a kidney. Last week Miss Medes was vacationing from a November spree, will go on another after New Year...
...other picture tries hard to romp, but it's almost too feeble to hobble. All in abidance with the rules of the movie game, a giddy heiress (Anne Southern) with remarkably sensible parents (Henry Stephenson and Jessie Ralph) gets ahold of a very worthy, manly, audacious young man (Gene Raymond) in order to win the man of her heart, who is really something of a cad. Then the rest of the movie is naturally enough used to indicate that heroines do not marry cads, no matter how close they may come to it. There is one departure from the normal...
Forty-two games have been played in the Harvard-Dartmouth series, in which only 10 Crimson scalps have been lost. There were three ties. The first clash was in 1882, a 53-0 romp for the sons of Cambridge, and it wasn't until 1903 that the Hanoverians chalked up their first win--a 11-0 battle framous as the first ever staged in the Stadium...
During the third quarter, it was anybody's game. Long gains by both teams were frequent, but almost always terminated in a fumble. One 30 yard romp by a Providence back resulted in Harvard capturing the ball when a last minute lateral failed. Encouraged by this break, the Crimson rallied for a first down, capitalized on a 15 yard penalty for several more gains, and then lost the ball in their turn by a fumble...
...last fortnight I found myself in mortal danger. This is the story. I am an Australian. In my country I have played four types of football. Naturally enough I wanted to see the American variety, so I hied me to the Stadium to see the Harvard squad romp over Amherst and Brown...