Word: tad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four Rhode Island State freshmen came from behind to nose out the Yardlings in a thrilling finish to the mile event. Bob Twitchell, Dave Osues, Tad Brown, and Paul Judy were the close losers for the Crimson...
...democratic The Academy surely is. Why, even Ben Gordon, Jew, a was president of the Student Council. (But Ben was forced to resign when he refused to participate in The Academy's program of military training.) And this year we have with us a Negro boy, Tad McKinley. (But Tad is expelled a week before his graduation for making love to his girl at Spring Prom.) Happily, our new Council President is a fine lad, Buddy Brown; we're sure Buddy will do a fine job. (Buddy is a little stinker, but we treat him kindly because his father...
...record at Hillsdale must certainly have looked good to Maine's athletic directors. "Tad" Wieman. In two seasons, Nelson's team lost just one game, while winning 14 and tying...
...Abraham Lincoln sits at home as his young sons clamber over him; they "patted his cheeks, pulled his nose and poked their fingers in his eyes." The sons were roughnecks: "Willie and Tad . . . rifled the drawers and riddled boxes, battered the points of my gold pens against the stairs, turned over the inkstands on "the papers. ... I wanted to wring the necks of these brats and pitch them out of the windows...
...East Room. Here, on another April afternoon, Abraham Lincoln's body had lain, his little sons Tad and Robert sitting at his feet, General Ulysses S. Grant in sash and white gloves at his head. Lincoln's coffin had rested under a black canopy so high it almost touched the ceiling. Windows, mirrors and. chandeliers had been smothered in crepe and the room had been ostentatiously gloomy. Now the East Room was just a corner of a big house, long lived...