Word: titular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George stuck his finger in his mouth and held it up in the air to decide which way the political wind was blowing. He decided that a gentle zephyr was blowing, favorable to Liberalism, so he virtually gave notice to the British public, probably with the counsel of his titular chief, ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith, that a general election was to be held at the end of the year...
...championship. The desperado was Abie Goldstein, "Harlem assassin," titleholder, whose boxing on this occasion was now brilliantly clever, now dismally stupid. The little old man was Charley Ledoux, of France, aged 32, bantamweight champion of Europe, who had come to America a third time ("and last," said he) with titular intentions...
Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, Harvard Stanford, and Galifornia is the way the college track and field enthusiasts are rating the teams for titular honors in the 48th annual I.C.A.A.A.A. championship meet at the Harvard Stadium, May 30 and 31. That judgement is based on known quantities and does not take into consideration the possibility that Cornell. Penn State or some other unheralded group will concentrate on a few events and jump into first place because the present favorites are cutting the group from beneath each other...
...Williamstown effort, according to the Chicago view, is "popular," avid of publicity, of small permanent value, impressed by titular rank. The Chicago Institute, states Vice President James H. Tufts, will attract a "more steady, conscientious group of people, equipped to consider questions in a scientific permanent...
Nancy Ann. The titular character is a young miss who, in spite of growing up with all the advantages of patrician society, does everything lefthanded. Those advantages include a quartet of berating aunts who are constantly trying to jerk her into a state of perfection. Their nagging accounts for Nancy Ann's state of perennial flutter...