Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chatter that passes back & forth between two teams on the field, printed after every game, became as famed as Mae West wisecracks. A top Kelleyism was his 1934 remark to the Princeton quarterback whose team, undefeated all season, had fumbled six times in the first ten minutes: "Has the Rose Bowl got handles on it?" At Yale Kelley's nonathletic doings have paralleled his career on the football field. In his sophomore year, he refused to join a fraternity because the initiation required him to experience a paddling. This and other breaches of etiquette cost him campus prestige which...
Duquesne's giant-killers, conquerors of mighty Pitt, knocked down passes by Marquette's Buivid, nipped Marquette's rising Rose Bowl hopes...
...June. The cartoon that delighted Mr. du Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that is my enemy. . . . What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Mr. du Pont hurried to a telephone, called up the cartoonist at the Record of fice, asked for the original. Canny Cartoonist Doyle, whose pictorial presentations of the du Fonts have hitherto been distinctly unflattering, assumed that he was talking to a prankster...
Last week from the offices of the Post-Dispatch leaked the story of a unique post-Election gesture to Clark McAdams' memory. When the Presidential returns were all in, tall, grey-haired 0. K. Bovard rose from his desk on the open floor of the Post-Dispatch city room, slowly stalked into the editorial room where Mr. Mc-Adams used to write, chalked on its bulletin board a succinct message...
Operating and maintenance costs were cut about $3,000, but permanent improvements to grounds, buildings, etc. rose almost...