Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Eddy was seven, his kinfolk left him an old Sears, Roebuck guitar and he learned to pluck a few chords and sing a few songs. When he got bigger, he started playing Saturday-night dances for 75? in Henderson, Tenn. Eddy could then afford to spark the girls to the extent of 50?. "And man, you spend that much on a girl where I come from, and she wants you to come back...
...close battle between two rangy, evenly matched teams. High scorer Tom Mullaney, cruising at 6 ft, 5 in., bombed the Jumbos in to 28 points and personally whittled the Crimson's eight point lead at 5 minutes before the end down to 3 points. He and Ed Smith, Harvard spark plug with 27 points, battered away at each others' backboards for nearly half of the tallies in the game...
...willing to bet," says one HLU man, "that the HYRC won't have one half of its original membership by this time next year," while Robert A. Levine '50, also a Liberal Unionist, felt that the new rightist organization might provide the spark needed to fire some of the many dormant liberalists among the students. "There are plenty of liberals on the campus," said Levine, "but they're just too damned lazy to join an organization...
...period of what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
...Donnell, who is 23, is two years younger than his brother Cleo, popular offensive spark of the 1942 team and captain of the 1946 eleven. Their father, also Cleo O'Donnell, was head coach for two decades and later athletic director at Holy Cross. Prior to this, he was a famous Everett High School mentor from 1912 to 1918 and coached Purdue for two seasons...