Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winning the Democratic nomination has any one of the dark horses listed in the CRIMSON's presidential primary poll? For one of a prophetic turn of mind, picking the winner of the Irish Sweepstakes offers less hazard and much greater reward. The dark horses on the CRIMSON's string are Senator Bulkley of Ohio, Governor William II, Murray of Oklahoma, Samuel Seabury of New York and former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Down in this shadowy side of the paddock are a crowd of other aspirants who are more than willing to run if given the opportunity. The list...
Nervousness and hurry, factors that every killer must cope with, are responsible for absurd mistakes. Dr. Magrath told of a man who in attempting to make the shot-gun murder of his wife appear a suicide, fastened a string to the trigger guard of the weapon instead of to the trigger itself...
...clique of thieves in India have in their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...
Other elements of the Press, not sharing the Hearstpapers' reverence for Editor Brisbane, minimized the exploit in various ways. The Chicago Tribune Press Service gave it a loud horselaugh with a string of home-brewed dispatches purporting to come from Joliet, Santa Fe, Leavenworth and other prisons. These "dispatches" said that Loeb & Leopold, Winnie Ruth Judd, Albert Bacon Fall, Terry Druggan and other more or less celebrated convicts might help the baby-hunt...
...will take the place of the former Harvard captain on Casey's coaching staff, where the All-American center was an assistant to line coach Walter Cleary. Ticknor leaves the Harvard eleven after one season of teaching football. During that time R. H. Hallowell '33, last year's first string pivot man, was developed into a center of the first rank. Two other men who came under the eyes of the former Harvard leader are W. A. Casey '34, and F. J. Crane '34, two members of the Sophomore class from whom much work in the center of the rush...