Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reconvened after the holiday recess to hear Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald denounced by a Scottish Independent Laborite in language so strong that it was censored out of Hansard, the official minutes of debate. With a score of poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing...
Last week word buzzed among the newsreel editors in Manhattan that The March of Time proposed to re-enact the Hauptmann trial in its first screen release. Honest denials by The March of Time were met by skeptical snorts. Determined to score a resounding beat, the newsreels sprang their trial scenes on the screen simultaneously with the premiere of The March of Time...
...Detroit, the Montreal Canadiens got three goals in the first ten minutes, then let the Detroit Red Wings catch up and finally tie the score...
...whatever. Occupied entirely with his job of making saves-i. e. keeping the puck out of the goal-Chabot is irritated only when he fails to do so. Last fortnight he clubbed a goal judge with his hockey stick for daring to assert that his opponents had contrived to score a goal. He was amused by news that the goal judge was suing...
Defeating the Lincoln Inn team by a shut-out score of 5-0, Coach Harry Cowles racquetmen by tieing Union Boat Club moved from third place to first ranking in the Class A division of the Massachusetts Tournament...