Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change made in the defense before the Springfild game has strengthened the power of the Crimson. In order to cope with the shots of Simmons, Yale center and high scorer in the Intercollegiate League, tight defensive work will be necessary. Although his team has won only one league game. Simmons has been a player greatly feared by his opponents. J.N. Barbee '28 moved to center from a guard position, will have a large assignment to get the jump...
Harvard outplayed the invaders consistently during the first period. The Frenchmen, while fast, were extremely wild, both in passing and in shooting, and failed to penetrate the tight defense put up by the Crimson...
...strictest principles, and in private to pursue and possess any sort of woman." Gladstone's sons have retorted by telling Captain Wright that he is a liar; Captain Wright has delivered the last counter-check in suing the Gladstone. All in all it is a nice mess, and "the tight little isle" is much more wrought up about it than America was when Ruport Hughes attempted to belittle Washington,--Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins were under suspicion at the same time...
...will tell you he was born on the Indian Ocean. At 6, enamored of red circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...
...face, stalks out of the room. But Lockhart forms the Consolidated (eleven big companies), gets himself elected president, starts a series of dastardy plots to "crush that young damn fool." ("Then, by God, I'll crush him to a pulp!" And Lockhart doubled his knuckled fists into two tight palsied knots.) But Rowntree is never crushed. At two o'clock one morning, pacing his father's library, he clutches at a musty volume. Out drops the secret letter which his father wrote him on the day of his death. So! Lockhart stole the patents, then! But Rowntree...