Word: ruggers
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Sport. Americans "think of football in terms of "tactics and skill more than, as we do in the case of rugger at any rate, in terms of sweat and endurance. As with football, so with dancing; they regard it from the angle of technique...
...their strange language, which is Semitic dashed with the flavors of Europe, they whispered in their cafés while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many...
Last fortnight 66,000 Britons went to Wembley Stadium in suburban London to see England play Scotland at Rugger. The crowd gave a great cheer at the entrance of the Russian military mission to Britain. Also present was King Peter of Yugoslavia, now an Oxford student...
Last week police searched the labyrinthine cellars of the Houses of Parliament for spies, even poked through the ventilating system and set a patrol on the roof. At 2 p.m. workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the tiny Peers Gallery. One peer was knocked down, although the Earl of Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous...
Among the star rugger backs are Dave Cowell, former Yale gridiron great, who scored against Queens Saturday; Bill Waters and Henry Kidder, also scorers in the Queens game; Bob Wesselhoeft, secretary of the Club; Henry Goff and Olf Osgood, formerly on the Princeton Rugby team...