Word: spike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York. Banking heavily on Henry Stimson's record as buster of the sugar trust, successful prosecutor of the famed market manipulator, Charles W. Morse, T. R. called on New York to rally behind young "Harry" Stimson. He might as well have referred publicly to Charles Evans Hughes as "Spike." On the stump high-collared Henry Stimson spoke as he did in the courtroom. His argument was well-reasoned, factual, clear. When the time came to tear into Tammany mugs he politely "begged to differ with them." The result was inevitable: a Democratic landslide...
Virginia liked town too. After one long absence she returned with a slicked-up husband. He "followed along behind her, grinning sheepishly, fatuously, and she clicked across the floor on her high spike heels and flung herself on the bed and burst into tears." "We're married," said her husband. "Well, now," said Paw, his face clearing, "come right in." "I hate him," said Virginia, "I hate him. I'm going to have a b-b-ba-baby...
...clock in the hopes that one of them will cover the mile and three-quarters course faster than Captain Sherm Gray's eight. The chances of the Crimson's being upset seem almost negligible, and the rangy Varsity seems headed for its first undefeated sprint season since Spike Chace captained...
...this year and should win the engagement easily, according to pre-race dope. In a mile test yesterday the first Eliot boat slugged over the mile course to finish a deck-length ahead of the second Eliots. Two lengths back was a Union Boat Club eight stroked by Spike Chace, whose name still makes every good Yale crew devotee shudder...
...shake-up after the race brought Charlie Chace down from number six to the stroke slide which his brother Spike filled on the Varsity a few years ago. This combination raised the hopes of all concerned by beating the third Varsity on Wednesday, and even coming close to the Jayvees. But newly-elected Captain Chace was not to avenge the earlier defeat when the Yardlings went the mile and three-quarters last Saturday against M. I. T. The Techmen won handily, leaving Harvard second place. A lot of the gloom conjured up by the two losses was dispelled when comparison...