Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partlow '41, will be fighting it out nip and tuck with Daniel Miles, captain of the visiting aggregation, for supremacy in the high jump. Partlow made quite a mark for himself on the Freshman team last year and has been doing consistently good jumping this winter, hitting six feet one inch. Northeastern's Miles can clear the bar at six feet four inches...
Rollicking verses like the foregoing (Chapel Wooing) have appeared in Chicago newspaper columns, over the nom de plume "Friar Tuck," for 20 years. Lank, bushy-browed Friar Tuck is a copyreader, feature-writer and religion editor for the Sunday Herald and Examiner. He is also, under his real name of Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, an Episcopal minister, rector for eleven years of Chicago's St. Stephen's, nicknamed "The Little Church at the End of the Road." Last week, upon the publication of Friar Tuck's latest thin volume of verse, Bishop George Craig Stewart named...
...Friar Tuck is proud that his little church is called the "Poets' and Artists' Church." Its walls are lined with paintings, sculpture, poets' manuscripts (including those of Edwin Markham, Carrie Jacobs Bond...
...himself, and, occasionally to others, that he would make a wonderful tailback. Provided, of course, that he could ever muster time enough to get into good condition again and buck up nerve enough to report for practice. It is no secret to the Vag that he probably could tuck that pigskin under his wing and run like hell for a touchdown against most any opposition. And he's a pretty keen fellow when it comes to calling plays, too, for that matter. Mix them up--run, pass, kick, fight for that extra yard--keep the old legs pumping...
...Tuck in the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland were Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore and Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor. So close were totals of county delegates instructed to vote for them at the State nominating convention Sept. 28 that last week after every last ballot had been counted the final decision lay in the result of an Allegheny County recount and the "third-choice" vote of Prince George's County...