Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people's mind was, as grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high...
Fred Gurley will be the main loss of the track men when they go to the meet, but Jaako Mikkola is depending on John Bayliss, Dick Bryan, Joe Crowley, Harvey Waldon, Dick Jones, Archie Lyons, Fred Pierce, and John Shillite to scalp the strong Indian team...
...Lamartine had kicked up a rumpus: the Review mailbag began to swell. A doctor wrote in to complain that the use of hatpins "is an actual and potential hazard to the health of our female population" because scalp abrasions invite invasion by the "bacillus Welchii." A poesy-minded lady in Los Angeles wrote...
...Harvard batsmen are in for a tough time against the CG's, judging from past performances. The sailors already have taken the Crimson scalp once this year and dropped a close deicsion to the Cleveland Indians a few days...
Last evening, at Sanders Theatre, G. Wallace Woodworth, with the aid of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Navy Communications School Glee Club, added another scalp to his already impressive collection. The program itself was a combination of the very old and the very new; Vaughan Williams was followed by Allegri, Sweelinck by Milhaud, Bartok by Mozart, and Mozart by Fine. But in every case the desired effect was attained...