Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short stick rounded at one end and a hard rubber ball, together with the necessary ice, were all the implements for the first games of "ice polo", as the sport was known in Cambridge in 1896. There were no limits to the rink and so no player could be off side, and the games-generally developed into cross-country chases in which the man with the best wind kept ahead of his foe and scored goals...
...second overtime period, and it was determined to play until a score came--what is called a "sudden-death" period. After about a minute of play Owen shook loose, wormed through the Blue line to the mouth of the net, and flicked the rubber past the eager stick of the Yale goalie...
...Gentleman Jack") Pszanowski. Chief Pszanowski, a Polish miner's son who began walking a beat in Omaha 20 years ago and reached his present eminence last July, is something new in police chiefs. He does not believe in violence. He is supposed to have used his night stick only twice in his career. Says he: "The day of the bully is done. The day of the treat-'em-rough policeman is over. We must so conduct ourselves, in our relations with the public, that we shall be regarded as public servants who know the rules of courtesy...
...sleep. They were the most human-sounding beasts I have ever met! All the grunts, sighs, groans, wheezes, and measured snores of human sleep were reproduced in a generous but exact replica. One snored so persistently that one of our hobo companions woke, swore sleepily, and with a stick rapped the offender into startled wakefulness and silence. Perhaps some of your other subscribers have had similar first-hand experience...
...descendant of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of Dave Hennen Morris, Manhattan barrister & corporation official; by suicide; in Manhattan. Earlier in the same evening Son Morris had heard Tannhaüser at the Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaüser wasn't brave enough to stick it out, but I have the courage to do it." It was recalled that 48 years ago, in Hanover, Germany, 16-year-old Francis Morris, uncle of Noel Morris, shot himself after hearing the opera Traviata...