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...Crimson placed men in seven events, including Dick Hayes in both hurdles and Johnny Dean in the shotput as well as the discus. The most impressive Harvard showing was the placing of Healey, Millard and Dean in order behind Slinger Dunn, Stanford's discus specialist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Qualifies Ten Men in I. C. 4A Meet to Lead Others | 5/26/1934 | See Source »

...World Courter. In fact, he challenged Governor Elaine to a debate on the subject. The Governor could not be bothered; one of his henchmen offered to substitute. Whereupon, the Senator said sweetly that he "could hardly accept the challenge of a scared man's bottle holder or towel slinger." The Governor replied that the Senator is merely "a Coolidge rubber stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Wisconsin | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Execution." Mr. David Lloyd George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger George: "The Geneva fiasco has created a bad impression abroad . . . led to a very unpleasant discussion in the U. S. Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamberlain Grilled | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...Larry--No evasion, Paymore! Every hash-slinger and table-tumbler must know that customers are their mortal enemies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

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