Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convenient spot to wine and dine before or after the game...
...Cardella, who loomed from the Cornell fray as a bright light on the bucking, spinning spot of the offense, and Jim Fearon, Russell's understudy at center, are at present in the infirmary with colds. Sensational Bill Coleman and Sophomore Don Lawry were absent in favor of scholastic pursuits, make-up exams et al. And Don Daughters and Captain Bob Green are sporting the latest model in football facials...
...James Westbrook Pegler and Heywood Campbell Broun there had long existed a somewhat strained out-of-print friendship. In print, "Old Peg," ever scornful of anything that looks like uplift, called his friend "old Bleeding Heart Broun," "the fat Mahatma." Two months ago, Columnist Pegler jabbed a particularly tender spot. American Newspaper Guild President Broun was operating a scab shop, he wrote, because the Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything to do with...
...first Yale graduate to assume coaching duties at Harvard, Al Colwell, assistant Yardling grid mentor, admitted he was "on the spot" but refused to take notice of any jinx...
...spot," as he termed it, was being interviewed on the relative merits of the Crimson and Eli coaching staffs, spirit, and material...