Word: timere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Franklin Roosevelt, "Honest Vic" has been for much of his 40-year official life the best all-around Democratic vote-getter. A ball of fire on the stump, old-timer Donahey has not once opened his jaws oratorically in the Senate since he was sworn in. A great believer in laissez-faire, a fanatic devotee of fishing in times of legislative crisis, "Honest Vic" thinks everybody talks too much. If Senators were graded like schoolboys, he would rate: diligence, fair; deportment, awful; attendance, terrible; common sense...
Jenunie Bunker failed to clear his customary six feet when last he appeared at the Garden. Rob Partlow, his partner in defeat in that week, will not take part in this one: he's an old timer at six feet, though and many not used the practice too badly...
...three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting antics...
Charley Devens was the only Crimson athlete in the modern era who became a full-fledged big leaguer; and he quit baseball shortly after he got into the big show. Maybe Lupien will give Harvard another big timer some...
...before this year. Penn Tuttle, who is filling Ros Brayton's shoes more than adequately as captain this year, was right up front in the Yale plod. Gene Clark is short on training because he was delayed in returning from abroad, but Jaakko considered him enough of an old-timer to run Friday; he trailed the first Blue man in last quarter...