Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clark displays on the ice all the same qualities that make him feared as a halfback, breaking through the opposing defense by sheer force rather than by subtle stick handling. Coady is the heaviest of the defense men and captained his Freshman team. Stanley starred as a first year skater and packs a wicked shot...
...famed Swiss resort, a descendant of the oldest Imperial House in the world twirled and pirouetted upon the ice. Baron Hayashi, onetime Japanese Ambassador to Britain, watched anxiously as the Imperial personage to whom he acts as tutor, cut figure-eights with joyful abandon. Meanwhile fashionable onlookers whispered the skater's identity. They whispered that he was Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, the second son of the Mikado...
Hallock, Wilkinson's defense mate, is the fastest skater among the invaders. In addition, he is clever with his stick, and a considerable factor in both the offensive and defensive schemes of Coach Ramsey...
After taking the lads to the nearest hospital, Austin worked for nearly an hour in reviving the second skater before he would take time to get into dry clothes...
...water froze. The skaters assembled. The Burgomaster "rang the town bell" and turned a valve emptying the pool "so that no one can possibly be drowned." The ice, of course, sagged and buckled into fragments as the supporting water flowed out. Disappointed skater-voters were reported in late despatches to be warming to their work of devising a suitable epithet with which to blast their once popular Burgomaster...