Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next week, Charles Callan again approached the poor box. Reflecting that the frightening flash had been caused by some short circuit, he had returned to complete his interrupted robbery. Yet this time again Charles Callan was disturbed. A policeman took him by the shoulder and hustled him to court. Here Charles Callan was confronted by a snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced...
Harry K. Thaw, Pittsburgh richman, killer of Architect Stanford White (1906), was tapped on the shoulder as he prepared to disembark from the Aquitania at Southampton, England. A steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon...
...visitors played errorless ball, and hit almost at will. J. N. Barbee '28 started on the mound for the University, but was relieved by Willard Howard '28 with only one out in the opening frame. Barbee's shoulder was apparently still bothering him, and his hurling was far from its best form...
...Cutts '28 will most probably be Coach F. G. Mitchell's choice to hurl against the heavy hitting Washingtonians, as J. N. Barbee '28 is still unable to work, owing to an injured shoulder. Howard Whitmore '29 is slated to take the mound in the Brown contest tomorrow. E. R. Todd '29, who has been playing with the Seconds, went up to the first squad and may cover the right field region. Besides Todd, who also plays first base, J. S. Cunningham '29, pitcher, A. L. Devens '30, outfielder, and W. L. Elkins '29, second baseman, were sent...
Last week fellow members of London's aristocratic Carlton Club condoled with Sir William, 64, because he had dislocated a shoulder. Soon, however, many a gouty peer grew mirthful at Sir William's very clubbable account of his dislocation. Said he: "I was undressing slowly, the other night, and reading P. G. Wodehouse's humorous story, Jeeves Carries On. I was so absorbed that I did not look to see what I was doing and consequently did not realize that I was putting both feet into one pajama leg. A moment later I stood up, overbalanced, fell...