Word: toms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marked by the unpleasant fact that the officials saw fit to call 12 personal fouls on the varsity while assessing only one to Yale, the half saw both teams employ man-to-man defenses, the outstanding defensive player being Tom Molumphy, who bottled up George Harrington...
...President of 1,000 Murders." Martí had predicted that "rascals will struggle to infest politics." After the administration, of First President Tomás Estrada Palma (1902-06), who died in poverty, Cuba never knew an honest President. No. 2 retired to a $250,000 mansion; No. 3 parlayed $1,000,000 into $30 million to $40 million; No. 4 was known as "the peseta stealer." No. 5, Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado (1925-33), coupled graft with terror, rode in a $30,000 armored car, had some of his victims fed to the sharks. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dispatched...
...learned better, graduated from the "leaky roof" circuit to the big time, became one of the finest riders in racing, was national jockey champion in 1944 and 1946. Nicknamed "the slasher" for his enthusiastic use of the whip, the articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy $17,449,360 in purses...
...likely Broadway hit (opening Feb. 5), with advance sales already past $1,000,000. The story: something about a dreamy London chick (Verdon), working in a turn-of-the-century waxworks, who gets tied up with a U.S. vaudeville strong man. In Washington, the Daily News's Critic Tom Donnelly called Redhead "a mad blend of Agatha Christie and Mack Sennett...
...tom thumb. The familiar tall story and its tiny hero, tastefully refurbished by Hollywood...