Word: toe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...derision of this newcomer in the Harvard backfield. But however funny the name of Chauncey-or the name of Marion Adolphus Cheek, for that matter-may have been to pool-parlor nickel-spinners, the weaker sisters of the Harvard eleven would have fared badly had not Chauncey's toe sent a ball over the crossbar. Score: Harvard 3, Brown...
Till it reached to his toe...
...words, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, sought and gained pardon from the Vicar of Christ for an offense which has estranged the Vatican from Sofia these many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted by the Papal Guard...
...people do not gather by the fifty thousand to see contests among these animals, eleven on a side. The 69,000 rain-drenched individuals who saw Illinois wallow against Chicago might as well have been watching such a game of porcine poke-belly. Britton's toe and a brace of fumbles gave the mud-match to Illinois...
...women who take a different type of part each week are in no great danger of making a hit in one part and remaining in that role or roles much like it all his life. An actor who can make himself more bow-legged than Greeley Kelley, or can toe in more than Glenn Hunter, is supposed to be successful; but in reality he is merely grotesque. And he has to stay grotesque all his life. Charlie Chaplin is the only exception--he is a real artist...