Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor to write down his blue sheets of bad news before their cheery hearth in Surrey (see cut). Last week, alert as a mother robin, she perched in the gallery, saw her Philip pop a private word in the Prime Minister's ear, pick up a glass of water,* tilt it against his thin lips, set it down, and begin to speak...
...single and two of the three double matches Saturday were taken in the first two sets. Captain M. T. Hill ocC was back in the line-up for the Cornell tilt, taking his match by defeating Vaughn...
...this past season and it was understood that the Cardinals would come to Cambridge the following year. Mayor Curley's statement forbidding the game was made on April 10 last when he said that he thought that holding the game here was interfering with the B. C.-H. C. tilt...
...Club 15 to 10. Harvard was also beaten by Princeton 6 to 3, but the Crimson team piled up a score of 7 to 3 against a strong Syracuse XV two weeks ago. Last year Yale won from the University 11 to 0 at New Haven, in the first tilt ever played between the Crimson and the Blue...
...script. They have gone on inventing, adding to the details of the fantasy, just as Mark Twain would have delighted in doing: the knights storming the castle of Queen Morgan Le Fay use submachine guns and ride in Austin cars; an autogiro arrives to rescue King Arthur; the tilt between Sir Boss (Will Rogers) and Sir Sagramor is an nounced in the manner of the modern prize-ring and broadcast by a whiskered radio man who begins McNamically: "Well, here we are at .Camelot. . . ." In this tilt Will Rogers, on a cow-pony, cuts figures around the knight...