Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick of long-legged Lenglen, said loungers. She had used unworthy pressure to have Miss Ryan withdraw so that she, Lenglen, might go undefeated, remain a legend. To crown the mess, they, disgusted, boycotted the tourney...
Joss played left tackle last fall and was one of the mainstays of the Blue line. In the game with Princeton he scored Yale's touchdown after receiving a forward pass on a trick formation...
...exactness, the efficiency expert of a Nation, nor like Mellon, a solver of the financial intricacies for the biggest business, the largest trust, the only absolute monopoly of the country-the U. S. Government. Rather, Warren is a man of more diversity, all mobile, a capable strategist, hard to trick, always ready for sortie or counterattack, complete and instant master of the forces of his mind...
...Howard Thurston played a trick on Calvin Coolidge. A stage was erected in the East Room of the White House; and the Coolidges (who are not attending public theatricals) assembled with a score of guests. Howard Thurston arrived with a moving van full of paraphenalia. With ducks, geese, pigeons, rabbits he prestidigitated. Then he took the President's watch, a gift from the Massachusetts Legislature, smashed it with a hammer, called for a loaf of bread from the kitchen. It was brought. Mrs. Coolidge cut it; and who would believe it??the watch appeared within, quite whole...
...surprising," concluded Mr. Mahady "how men will try the same trick over and over again and hope to get away with it. Why, we had one fellow who tried to slip in two applications for the same book. He was caught and reprimanded by my assistant, but, nothing daunted he tried the same trick again four hours afterwards with...