Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ships with a lady oceanographer (Fay Wray) on her yacht bound for the site of the sunken treasure. Also along is a diver (Ralph Bellamy), who is at first more interested in his craft than in Miss Wray. The iniquitous Teuton, best actor in the cast, soon shows his stripe by trying to get all the gold for himself. He is dragged beneath the waves to his death for his pains. Love for the oceanographer comes to the diver when he goes to rescue her, trapped in a bathetic bathysphere by a giant octopus. Some of the submarine photography...
...editors seemed less excited than in Manhattan. In St. Louis. Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, conceding that the Morgan tax deductions were "of a totally different sort" from those of Banker Mitchell, found "grave injustice" in the tax laws. To the Denver Post Morgan and Insull were of a stripe. William Allen White compared Morgan tactics to "a thimblerigging game." Of letting friends in on the ground floor of stock prices, said the Baltimore Sun, "Taking the practice as a whole, it is bad." The reticent Kansas City Star found nothing in the story to warrant deviation from its style...
...changed. Confusion has entered our midst. A budding tradition has been nipped. We have lost our familiar "Major" for an animal of a different stripe. He is now a Colonel. Will he act differently? Will his teeth become sharper we hope not. Nevertheless, things can never be the same. Some of us die-hards will persist in calling him "Major." Impudent young bloods will callously accept the new title, little realizing or caring that they are stamping on a fine old thing--a noble tradition. I, for one, regret this, and an bewildered by an officialdom which will commit such...
...those of us who write the news, it seems eminently desirable that there should be a special word to designate the perennial botherations of a stripe that can be really expressed only as an ilk, who, when their published statements get them into trouble, try to worm out by declaring loudly that they have been misquoted...
Hammering Harvard's line hard, Field received Dean's kick and runs it to Harvard's ten-yard stripe where Buchler advanced it over the goal line on the next play. Score Army 33, Harvard, 0. Score by Periods Army 7 6 13 19--46 Harvard...