Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemies; many abilities, no vices. He has been a lawyer, private secretary to the High Commissioner for South-Africa, justice of the peace, soldier, Wartime director of Information (propaganda), book publisher, director of Reuter's news agency, member of Parliament from the Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King, and has shown a brilliant flair for dishing up heroes in immensely scholarly, reasonable and sound biographies: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Scott...
...have always believed that in industrial and business and professional life the men who have passed the milestone of three-score years and ten ought to give place to younger leaders. Even if they enjoy good health and buoyant spirits, and I have both of those happy possessions, it is time to give the next generation a chance...
...Slowest was the first of the semi-final series, in which the Montreal Maroons out-tricked the Rangers, 2 to 1. Most exciting was the fourth, between the Bruins and the Maple Leafs, won by the Maple Leafs 2-to-1 when their young forward Regis Kelly tied the score two minutes before the end of the third period, made the winning goal in the overtime period that followed. When the uproar was all over, the Montreal Maroons, a clever, cautious team built around their crack defenseman, Lionel Conacher, had qualified to play the speedy, more experienced Toronto Maple Leafs...
Navy accounted for the third defeat by taking the Harvard team in hand 7-1 at Annapolis, Maryland. The Mid-shipmen almost whitewashed the Cambridge team, which only managed to score through the efforts of Thomas Edmands in the final quarter...
Wherever Louis Wiley went he made acquaintances by the score, friends by the dozen. He was passionately proud of his acquaintance with celebrities. Whoever saw him once, never forgot him. His ingratiating personality made a sharp first impression; his compelling personality made the impression permanent. Like many a self-made man, he paid his underlings meagrely, but his private philanthropies were supposed to be prodigious...