Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenancière, he protested, meant a woman who kept disorderly premises; and madame is the ordinary title of married Frenchwomen. Tiems! Did the Committee propose to slander at one stroke all the honest wives of France...
Finally, at the stroke of noon, the Speaker's gavel fell; the Navy Band struck up The Star Spangled Banner, followed by A Perfect Day, My Old Kentucky Home, The Sidewalks of New York Slowly, the House chamber emptied. . . . The janitors went to work...
Norton, who was captain and stroke of last year's Freshman eight, will hold his present captaincy only until the return of Geoffrey Platt '27, captain elect of this year's University crew. At present Platt is ill at his home in New York and probably will be unable to row for about two weeks...
...Crew B: Stroke, T. C. Sturtevant '27; 7, James Hudson '29; 6, John Howe '27; 5, M. L. Bell 29; 4, Morton Cole '29; 3, R. F. Courtney '29; 2, C. A. Stewart '29; bow, E. P. Bayley '28; Coxswain, Carl Pforsheimer...
...Crew C: Stroke, James De Normandie; 7, E. B. Hanley '27; 6, H. W. Bragdon '28; 5, Maurice Hecksher '28; 4, F. E. Farnsworth '27 3, J. J. Oddoms '29; 2, H. V. S. Ogden '27; bow, Henry Ware '27; Coxswain, F. R. Sullivan...