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...Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...
...touchdown was scored without the runner crossing the goal line. South Carolina's Jack Lyon was running free for a touchdown when a Citadel rooter stepped onto the field, tackled him. Since Lyon had been clear, the referee awarded South Carolina six points. Score: South Carolina 21, Citadel...
...observer of a great calamity. The sides formed, the propaganda rained, every day heightened the emotional tension but in this country there was no valid way for an individual to relieve his sense of frustration. There was nothing to do but about and boat the air like the frenzied rooter at a football game nothing to do but join the chorus of that particular world which was your own. And not to conform to one world or another during that period was to incur a potent blast of hostil criticism from every side...
...stockholders, who turned the meeting into a rousing capitalist demonstration. They cheered loudly when President Gifford announced that his salary was $206,250 per year. "He's worth more than that," yelled a Gifford rooter. One stockholder uprose with a plea "to end all troubles by voting the Republican ticket." Another suggested an educational program for the public and for legislators. "Did you call them legislators?'' fumed a little grey-haired man in the front row. "They're not legislators; they're inflated balloons...
...affection for or confidence in him than hatred of his opponent. There is more of this than I ever saw in American political life. All this protest vote will go to Roosevelt and not to me. But I've never yet been able to find a real Roosevelt rooter except perhaps Josephus Daniels who says he raised him. The Roosevelt people are those who put cotton in their ears so they can't hear him. . . . Prohibition isn't one-tenth the issue it was. Too many people are hungry for that. . . . Hoover's speeches have helped...