Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originating the Notre Dame shift at the burlesque show and the forward pass at a bathing beach, pat O'Brien, with nose pushed left, gives an entertaining but not convincing performance as "Knute Rockne--All-American." Only Ronald Reagen sparks the picture as George Gipp, Rock's greatest player. His sincere death bed histrionics make the flabby sentimentality of the last quarter of the picture worse by comparison...
...Forte, Sophomore wingman, was sent down to the seconds and Joe Ferris, a guard, was up from the third eleven as a result of the shift...
...Today we are asked to aid England with supplies, and that is right. Tomorrow the German attack may shift to the outposts of Britain's Empire, and many will feel that the time has come to send men and ships. But it is there that we must steel ourselves to say no. If lives are to be lost in defense of our nation, we must not meet the enemy on his own terms and send our men to futile slaughter." (From an editorial entitled "Masters of Our Destiny...
Thirty-three Lord Jeffs will work out in the Stadium this afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30, followed by Harvard on a 3:45 to 4:45 shift. The visitors will stay at the Belmont Country Club and will be joined by 22 additional team members tomorrow morning. H. A. A. officials report one of the highest advance sales in years for an opening game and predict that the crowd will be in the vicinity...
...unconcerned, by week's end had gone to Riom to face trial. Shocking to Frenchmen who have for years been taxed to the eyes for armaments was the lack of planes when war broke loose. In returning from the U. S., M. La Chambre either believed he could shift the blame on his predecessors or was making a gallant gesture...