Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomore crews and a mixed crew in addition to one from both the Senior and Junior classes. Coach Brown said that this arrangement would be followed until after the Spring recess when the University and Second University crews would be picked. He plans to shift the candidates for the stroke and coxswain berths continually in order to get the best men for these positions which are left vacant by the graduation of John Watts '28 and C. H. Pforzheimer '28, stroke and coxswain respectively on last year's eight...
Since Senator Vare was in Florida, still recuperating from the paralytic stroke which he suffered last summer and which, according to his physicians, made it impossible for him to appear and defend himself, the committee in its report merely recommended his final rejection but presented no ouster resolution. To the grim-jawed, vindictive Reed was left the honor and the glory of demanding, one last time, the Senator-Suspect's rejection...
...during the last few years. There are two reasons for this. In the first place there are no men in college with coxing experience on any University crews inasmuch as the University and Second crew coxes were both Seniors last year. In the second place, there are no experienced stroke oars available, since the graduation of Captain Watts of last year's crew leaves a gap that will have to be filled by a man without four-mile experience. The problem of selecting a coxswain that can materially aid a relatively green stroke is, therefore, of great importance...
Bennett died in 1872 of a stroke of apoplexy?a mocking old man, who had more enemies than friends. He gave his son complete ownership of the Herald...
...laughter. Caprice is the comedy of an artist, not a farceur, though it contains moments of mediocre farce. The author is a Viennese, Geza Sil-Vara, and it is his first play (adapted by Director Moeller) to be presented in the U. S. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne stroke the velvet and stir the smooth cream of Caprice, Lynn Fontanne wearing wigs, dresses by Jeanne Lanvin, hats with small, Mercurial wings attached to them...