Word: terrierism
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...scholar of Latin and medieval literature (Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars; Gateway to the Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...
After tallying once in the second, twice in the sixth, and once more in the seventh, the Terrier pups appropriated three last runs in the top of the ninth. With one out Agganis singled and scored on third baseman Hurley's single. Gayzagian added the final touch with a two run homer, his third extra base wallop, his fourth and fifth runs batted...
...freshmen picked up another run in the fourth on singles by Ralph Robinson and Hen Akillian and on some mediocre Terrier fielding...
...actual play, Bud Ager, Captain Ted Bullard, Charlie Ames, Hilliard Hughes, Jack Frey, and Jay Robb all whipped their Terrier opponents in straight sets. Number one man Ager was most impressive as he trimmed Jack Conant, BU's best, in two six-love sets...
...shabby-genteel army captain. Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries. When the school collapsed for lack of students, the awkward Johnson and the terrier-like Garrick set off for London together, a few coins between them, to make their fortunes...