Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest of teams, and he was not used to the excitement of winning games by one-point margins. Only once before in his 19-year coaching career had that happened to him, on an historic occasion in 1926 when his Alabama team beat the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl by the exact score of last week...
...then proved its mettle. The break can be dated from New Year's Day 1926, when the University of Washington, Pacific Coast Conference champion, invited what it considered the best team in the U. S. (outside the Conference) to play in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses game. That was Alabama's Crimson Tide which in one of the most exciting second halves in Rose Bowl history won Coach Wade his first 20-to-19 victory...
...eleven years since then Southern teams have played in the Rose Bowl six times. Southern Methodist, Alabama, Tulane and Georgia Tech, colleges which the East and Midwest had previously looked on with disdain, turned out teams good enough to be invited to play the West's best. Today, football in the South still differs from football in other sections of the country. It is frequently played under a hot sun, while spectators sit in shirt sleeves eating ice cream, and players go onto the field barelegged, but the quality of Southern football wins respect from coast to coast...
Publisher Hanson will continue the weekly A. & P. Menu, a handout which rose to 750.000 circulation, has cost his company a million dollars in six years. The first Thursday of each month the Menu will be part of Woman's Day. With true grocery psychology, A. & P. printed on the cover of free Woman's Day: "Price 3?" coyly crossed out the figure...
...eyes of the polite world, Ernest Hemingway has much to answer for. Armed with the hardest-hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began...