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Penalties were frequent, and at one time Carr, of Harvard, Swig, of Brown, and Hicks, of Harvard, were in the box at the same time, but there was no further scoring and the game ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CRUSHES BRUIN TEAM 7-1 ON PROVIDENCE RINK | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mishaps in Massachusetts | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...columnists university employment if he obtained the 1934 appointment as athletic director. By this time Golemgeske had changed sides, charged that Director Meanwell had offered him a job and two major letters if he would circulate a petition for Spears' dismissal, also accused him of giving him a swig of whiskey after a 1935 game. Waukesha alumni, fearing that their native son was the football of opposing groups, engaged a lawyer, sent him to Madison. Promptly Meanwell, known as a confirmed "dry" for 25 years, marched before the athletic council, denied promising Golemgeske a job, admitted giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wisconsin Dismissals | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...evening last week Mayor William Nissley McNair of Pittsburgh hopped up on a platform in Fifth Avenue High School to address a meeting of Communists. After taking a long swig of water from a milk bottle, he began: "Who is this Mr. Bourgeoisie? I'd like to meet him. From what the chairman says, he must be a pretty fine fellow. I'm here to answer the charges of the Communists. The chairman has announced that the issue before you tonight is that of Communism or Fascism. That's a lot of baloney." "Boooo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pittsburgh Phonograph? | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...East Orange, N. J., Campbell C. Groel was arraigned for drunken driving. Police Exhibit A, a bottle of musty port, was handed to the defendant. He took a long swig, commented: "Somebody's weakened it." Thus assured that Campbell C. Groel had been drinking from that bottle, the recorder fined him $200, suspended his license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Answer | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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