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...team started its challenging four-game series on a shakey note. Playing a cautious defensive game for most of the way, it lost to undefeated Minnesota, 7 to 2, Dec. 29 before 5,599 fans at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. Thereafter, the Cirmson played more encouraging hockey. The next evening in Minneapolis the vi-efforts led most of the way until a third-period rally won for the Gophers, 4 to 3. Coach Cooney Weiland sent his players deep into the Minnesota and for plenty of fore checking and constant harassment of the Gopher skaters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hockey Team splits Holiday Games | 1/4/1962 | See Source »

...cree-ay-tin even more horibul cree-ay-shuns than yo Like ladys wif gravel in thar hare, mudd in thar eyes an who smells badd. Natcherly, the Americun public in-joys this vurry much. . . . Go to it, Gooch, whomp up a lady that is so itchy, so shakey, so smelly, an so onbarubbly disgustin thet once agin yo will be the king of the funny page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lena v. Gravel Gertie | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

From out these amber-colored doings we do find much unneeded sympathy for our newly-weds, "Shakey" and Mrs. Michels, H. "Bruin" Sheller and frau, and "Elongated Abe" and his wife Zaleznick. "The cob" (quotation borrowed) is the fact that our company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company stalwarts as "Buck" Ayers, B.A. (?) Johnson, "Rolie Polie" Foley, Regt, Comdr, Grenaker, and numerous other eupidites...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

Finegan scintillated at short, completing two double plays unassisted and starting a third. Lou Clay, 1942 hurler, tightened up after a shakey start, limiting the Jumbos to two bingles in the last four innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Nine Beats Tufts Frosh As Finegan, Buckley Star | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Emperor") Aurelius Elliott. It was the sight of the Eton birch which made Queen Mary exclaim: "If I had known the boys were thrashed with this, I should never have let Henry [The Duke of Gloucester] go to Eton." Appointed in 1933, new Headmaster Elliott found Eton finances shakey, Eton boys unruly. With great success he put Eton on a paying basis, flogged a record number of culprits during his first term, has made Eton boys as good as they need be to grow up the Empire's masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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