Word: tad
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Ducky Pond was a spectacular halfback, tutored by Tad Jones. He is most famed for the game which won him his nickname, played in a driving rain with Harvard in 1923. Pond recovered a Harvard fumble, sloshed to Yale's first touchdown against Harvard in seven years. Since 1928 he has been on Yale's coaching staff in charge of scrubs and as chief scout. He is short, thick, dainty on his feet, exceedingly fast. On and off the field he is quiet. He does not scold his players, does not give fight talks, convinces them that they...
...Associated Press, Michigan's assistant Athletic Director Franklin C. Cappon denied that he planned to transfer to Yale. In Iowa City Coach Ossie Solem of Iowa denied the same thing. New Haven belched forth a torrent of contradictory rumors: Yale's one-time Coach T. A. D. ("Tad") Jones might be re-engaged; the members of the secret committee would ask for the resignation of Athletic Director Farmer unless he hired Coach Kipke; Footballer Clare Curtiri, 1934 Yale captain, was conferring with President Angell about a new coach; a petition signed by the 1933 squad, for an "outside...
...founder-publisher of Variety, helped popularize such technical theatre talk as "wow," "panic," and "flop" but it never got far from Broadway. H. L. Mencken coined expressions like "Bible Belt," "booboisie," "Yahwah," which became part of the language of his imitative admirers but not slang. Cartoonist T. A. Dorgan ("Tad") put a little dog in his pictures who barked "balogna"; the term was not, like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs" Baer...
...sipper of fine wines), lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst's staff were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from the Hills.} Hearst hired special trains at the slightest drop...
That is the horrid end of Rasputin but not the end of horridness in Rasputin and the Empress. It goes on to show Tsar Nicholas (Ralph Morgan), the Tsarina (Ethel Barrymore), the Tsarevitch (Tad Alexander) and his sisters leaving their palace and being herded into a cellar where an enthusiastic firing squad disposes of them as though they were clay pigeons...