Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Bridges wanted to know why an investigating committee appointed by Vice President Garner would not be acceptable. Having already admitted that he thought Vice President Garner was "pure gold," Tennessee's McKellar tried a new trick: "I think some newspaper must have published a statement that the Senator from New Hampshire was a new Coolidge, and was a candidate for the Presidency, and it has gone to the Senator's head...
Bothered all season a year ago by a trick knee and a spiked heel, Art Johns should show great improvement over his below-par performance at second base last year. Already John's hitting in the cage has jumped, while he is regarded by many sports writers as the best double-play maker in Eastern college baseball. Varsity utility infielder last season and regular Freshman short-stop of the undefeated team two years ago, Dick Grondahl is being groomed to take over the place vacated by the graduation of Captain Tom Bilodeau at short...
...When a young Swiss neurologist from the University of Berne tried to trick him into making mistakes, he growled: "I answer no doubters. Bother the asses...
...kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with every watercolorist's trick, "scrubbing in" colors with the brush, tipping the paper for even floods of wash, using his thumb, rags, blotters to get the effect he wants...
Although for a number of years people have been waiting for the storm of skiing to blow itself out, that sport has upset the dope by becoming more and more popular despite every trick of the weather. New with the announcement that Norwood Cox will give expert instruction over the coming weekends to anyone at Harvard who joins the squad, skiing is already showing sings of struggling to its feet as a recognized Harvard sport...