Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat stroked by Spike Chace is expected to lead the procession, but it may have a fight on its hands from some of the other combinations. These crews were chosen by lot last Friday and have been practicing together since then. The aggregation paced by Barr Comstock, dynamic stroke of last year's combination crew, has shown some promise, as had Tom Talbot's boatload, and with nine or more crews lined up abreast on the basin course anything may happen...
...call a cad." Besides a cad, one learns that he is an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, an ex-Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung in the trailer window. His connection with Margit, until they make a deal, is limited to a friendship with her Bohemian sister Irene (Florence Rice) and the latter's gentlemanly fiance...
...together-the Canon's increasing nervousness, physical resemblances, further note-comparing by returned English tourists-the news soon gets around. After hearing the Canon"s full confession (a mixture of contrition and lyricism about nude bathing in a mountain stream), Dean Mallinson makes a heroic effort to spike the gossip. For a time he thinks he has suc- ceeded. But when the gossip starts again, the Cathedral rocks with it. To save the Cathedral's honor, not Carmichael's soul, frightened Cathedral officials decide to send the Canon to another church on the pretext that his health...
...years in a box of earth four feet square. Three new leaves appeared but quickly withered and died. After this came a sprout which The Bronx scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant was 8 ft. 5 in. tall...
Yale went for its first time trial this afternoon, and were clocked at 20:02, This is slightly faster than Harvard's first time, but the Ellis rowed higher during most of the course. On Saturday Spike Chace, Crimson stroke, kept the count at 32 most of the way, while Johnson, Yale pace-setter, stayed around 33 or 34. Yale is longer at the reach and lays back further, with slight sousing of the bow as a result...