Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunday Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, dictated a letter to the leading Ohio booster, giving him permission to toss a nominatory monkey-wrench into the works. Since Ohio's plans, and particularly those of its favorite son. Senator Frank B. Willis, had not included the Secretary of Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...
...teacups and the apparent discrepancies between opera and sports arena. Mr. Williams distinctly recalled a recent prizefight in which Michael McTigue lost the light-heavyweight championship to Thomas Loughran (TIME, Oct. 17), chiefly, according to Mr. Williams, because, Mr. McTigue waited until the last rest between rounds to "toss off" a teacup of something. He recalled Rube Wadell, baseball pitcher, who sat over his teacups all one night before his pitching masterpiece?a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely, and thereafter no man reached first base. He recalled Golfer J. Douglas Edgar, of England...
...start to finish the game was replete with thrills. With the score 6 to 3 in favor of Harvard, and only a few minutes to play, Dartmouth started a march into Harvard territory. A Dartmouth score seemed imminent when Percy Jenkins '24, breaking through on a passer, blocked the toss, and without slowing up caught the ball before it struck the ground and raced to a touchdown...
...abandon with which the Crimson tossed forward passes to the winds and the success attending these attempts was surprising. A. E. French '29 and Crosby made star catches of difficult pass chances, and the Crimson's second touchdown came on a long toss from David Guarnaccia '29 to A. O. Fordyce '28, who had only three yards to run. The few lateral passes attempted worked smoothly...
...real wonder is the height to which American enthusiasm can toss a man from the very tip and foam of its intermost wave and, likewise, the abysmal depth of the trough into which it can forthwith plunge him. There have been newly-elected presidents: and there have been x-presidents. There are heros of the hour and there are men, and women too, who have had their famous moments. Fickle and feverish attention is the vice of a child. There is much material for the sociologist in the childishness of the American public. The tabloids have exploited it professionally. Walter...