Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From New Haven comes word that "the Yale News is in complete sympathy with the CRIMSON'S idea." The Princetonian likewise echoes the CRIMSON with an editorial statement that "the sideshow is seriously threatening to swallow the big show." And the Dartmouth undergraduate paper writes: "We agree with the Harvard CRIMSON. . . Intercollegiate football is a menace in its present form, and steps should be taken to restore it to its properly subordinate position." And the days continue to dawn without any shooting...
Again the reporter began to speak. Again M. Caillaux halted him. "Speak more plainly and do not swallow your words so. Those are two faults I find in many Americans...
...Although one swallow does not make a summer, one tophus makes gout and one crescent malaria...
...reason or another, the Governors found Defense Day an easier pill to swallow this year than last...
...Freshman football team was stopped a foot from the Blue goal and forced to swallow a 7 to 6 defeat; the basketball team, after leading for the bulk of the game, lost by a single point; the track team gathered a bare two points less than their Yale opponents; but yesterday's reverse was the most disappointing of all. Eight innings of practically perfect pitching went for naught in the ninth after victory seemed within Harvard's grasp by virtue of a single score in the eighth which had broken a seven inning deadlock...