Word: scalped
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...contests on the short end of a small score. The Eli aggregation is generally picked to snatch the intercollegiate title away from the third place Indians but is certain that they will have to show great power to skate away from the Crimson with another scalp hanging at their belts...
...uncrowned tsar of Monte Carlo, sleek, hard Casino Director René Léon, far more potent than fusty old Prince Louis of Monaco, was under withering fire last week from Monégasques who loudly demanded his scalp. On top of the wallop Depression gave Monte Carlo had come a second staggering blow, the decision of the French Government in 1933 to legalize roulette, hitherto a Monte monopoly, in France. Groggy from these two crushers, Director Léon faced last week the minute principality's irate National Assembly. Shouted a deputy who was promptly seconded by Mayor...
...until February with a bad ankle, and to cap the climax long Bill Gray is taking a rest on doctor's orders. If Gray and Boys can be in uniform to greet the Cayugans, Harvard's stock will be high, and there seems to be no reason why another scalp cannot be added to the Harvard total of three. Three was all the games that were won last year, so anything from now on will be profit...
...jingle might go on indefinitely, with Senator David Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House; with Airman Charles Augustus Lindbergh who protested against airmail cancellations; with others & others...
...Majestic, one day out of Southampton, broke a wave so huge that it shattered four windows on the bridge, stunned Captain Edward L. Trant, commodore of the White Star fleet, with a shower of heavy, leaded glass. When the Majestic docked in Manhattan Captain Trant, suffering from an infected scalp, was rushed ashore to a hospital. In a Mineola, L. I., court, to petition that her name be fixed once & for all, appeared Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William...