Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting raggedly and losing the ball to the Jayvees on a fumble in midfield, the Varsity was put on the defensive in the early part of the afternoon. But right then the whole team tightened up, and from that time on it was rough going for the Jayvees. For the Varsity held Jimmy Knex's boys for downs and got the ball again on their own 40. They drove through to a first down on the 50, Don Jackson turned in a sweet little sprint to the Jayvees' 18, and Tommy Bilodeau added three more spaces. Chet Litman did what...
Roger Hallowell, ace center of the Crimson team in 1932, was so rough on shoes that he found that the speed shoes were left in tatters at the end of the second half. He decided to concede the speed to the sturdiness of the practice shoes and thereafter were only he heavier shoes...
...Before President Roosevelt left Newport and the America's Cup races, he shouted over the rail of the Nourmahal to newshawks, who had had some rough sailing keeping up with him: "I hear some of you boys lost your vocabularies . . . ." Presidential laughter boomed out over the water as he added: "Never mind, I'll try to find them for you on the way back...
...served for a whole year at such a lowly salary was that he had assigned NRA's top salary, $14,000, to Donald Richberg in order to get the Chicago lawyer as NRA's chief counsel. Whereas General Johnson was the son of a postmaster and politician in rough and tumble Oklahoma, Donald Richberg was the son of a successful lawyer with a good practice in Chicago. Son Richberg, as became his position in the world, went through the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School, entered his father's law office?and promptly became disgusted with the world around...
Fortescue is a name that falls readily into headline type. Each member of that socialite family has popped into the public prints in a different way. Major Granville Roland Fortescue, stepson of an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider in Cuba, White House military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, explorer, World War correspondent, A. E. F. field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years...