Word: spoiling
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Although the Terriers picked up a run in the eighth to spoil his shut out, Williams limited them to six hits, striking out six. This was the same B.U. team which earlier this spring beat the varsity...
...successful run off-Broadway in New York, are not a first-rate group, and the far limits of the play's potential would be beyond them under the best of circumstances. But they sport adequate brogues, they have a good Pegeen in Miss Carroll, and they do not spoil the permanent freshness of Synge's play...
...Cannon's career took the couple all over the world. During her travels, Mrs. Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...
Just such a break enabled the Bruins to spoil Harry Pratt's shutout on a breakaway at 11:10 of the third period, although the goalie blocked two shots from point-blank range before the third one counted...
...handsome and elegant young man, so lordly, so cultivated and so exquisitely kind-hearted," and "the intolerant, for whom the artist does not excuse the unbearable buffoon, who could neither stand alcohol nor keep away from it, the weak author of his own downfall, the boring, drunken spoil-sport...