Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the kickoff one of the school players sneaked over to the side lines and lay there until the first play. When the ball was snapped back, he rose up and caught a long pass that was tossed to him, a perfectly executed sleeper pass. But the Harvard Freshman seconds were still in there fighting. They caught up with the catcher of the pass and were about to smother him on their own 30-yard line, but again they were fooled...
...cadenced critique by Vanity Fair's onetime editor, Frank Crowninshield, defended from the charge of "boudoir art" Marie Laurencin's pale, obsessive ladies, "with those undefined pools of night which are their eyes, their magnolia-soft cheeks, their plumes of periwinkle blue and lips of fadeless rose...
...nibbling his fingers as the University of Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California's top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents...
...Sandy Sanford, sophomore end, kicked a 20-yd. field goal at the last minute and Alabama beat Tulane 9-to-6. Undefeated and untied, Alabama continued to hope to play in the Rose Bowl New Year...
Photographs: of a slant-walled sharecropper's shanty near Rose Bud, Ark., the rusted-away body of a Ford roadster in the foreground: "I remember when that automobile was a mighty pretty thing to ride around...