Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hardwick is one of the University's outstanding all-round athletes, as he was not only All-American end, but a letter man in baseball and track. Playing with C. E. Brickley '15, "Tack" Hardwick was largely responsible for the 20 to 0, 15 to 5, and 36 to 0 defeats of Yale...
...drew back his wand with headstrong determination and struck the willow ball. It rose like a golf ball for a midiron over the heads of the players, bounced, bounded through the posts over 100 yards away. Webb scored, Hitchcock scored, Milburn (against whose play at back the British at tack had foamed and fallen like a wave) scored twice; Hitchcock scored, Webb scored twice; Roark scored a second goal for Britain. Webb scored; Pert scored the last stategoal for Britain. Total: U.S. 13, Great Britain...
...girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
Since Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, staunch Liberal, hearty democrat, now guides the helm of the Dominion Government, there is no chance that it will be put over on such a Tory tack as that proposed by Premier Ferguson. Remained, however, for some U. S. citizens the glamorous thought that some day they may be able to obtain in Canada that other commodity denied to U. S. citizens, a peerage...
...chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting at "secession" and will find his Cabinet threatened on his return to Cape Town...