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Robert Casper's sketch of a prissy, tantrum-throwing spoiler and Robert Flether's portrait of a stuffy Englishman are also twisted to caricature...
When the soccer team runs onto Penn's River Field for its first road contest this morning, it will probably be facing its toughest opposition to date. Penn looks like a spoiler, with wins over strong Haverford and Princeton squads...
...soapbox as soon as the Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton. "Joey," he proclaimed, "takes a punch better than any fighter I ever handled, and that goes for both Dempsey and Walker." Without much doubt, 174-lb. Joey Maxim had been underrated too long. What the trade knows as a "spoiler," i.e., a clever boxer who enjoys making less refined punchers look like chumps, he has taken a lot of the bounce out of better-known heavyweights. Four years ago, Joe Louis observed after Maxim dropped a decision: "He's still got that Army rust. But he's clever...
...varsity basketball team will attempt to extend its newly-acquired role of "spoiler" in the Ivy League to the University of Pennsylvania quintet tonight when the teams meet at the Boston Garden at 9:30 o'clock...
...grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak as if any alternate were always preferable to war; and yet very few of them would carry the principle of non-resistance so far as to reduce this country to the condition of china, a prey to the foreign spoiler. Between national subjection or humiliation and war they would not hesitate. Nor are they, with few exceptions, unwilling to adopt such means as may be necessary to avert wars, or to reduce their frequency--even though the means were necessary to attain the end. To such people, those who advocate seriously...