Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three games so far this season, Dartmouth has two wins and one loss. The loss was to Penn, 21 to 0, in the opening game, and the Hanoverians showed very little to be pround of. The following week, however, they rose up and slaughtered Holy Cross, 31 to 7, a pastime which seems to be conventional in the Ivy League this year. Last week they trimmed Colgate, 27, to 13, after spending a nervous first half...
...football was a family affair with Yale and Princeton, the Indians saved their scalps by staying up in the hills from 1912 to 1922. This was the Golden Age of Crimson football when Percy Haughton's machine won 71 out of 83 games and the Cantabs went to the Rose Bowl...
...Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes." Rose's laconic account of the end of a riot at his Texas Centennial Exposition ("The brawl was over") was elaborately transformed into "My savage cowboys became as well-behaved as [Paris] street urchins on the day of their First Communion...
Last week the Digest had not yet figured out how to turn Rose into nine other languages, including the Scandinavian...
...death of Commonwealth & Southern was about all that Wall Streeters seemed sad about last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.38 points to a new 1949 high of 185.36, well above what most traders had hoped for in what they had regarded as only the usual "summer rise...