Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tuck battle all the way, the game looked like a tie up until the last few minutes of the game, when Captain Irv Schmid put a fine shot into the corner of the Harvard goal to clinch the game for Springfield...
...pleasure of ticking off Laval certainly appealed to elegant S. (for Somerville) Pinkney Tuck. Tall, handsome, with flecks of grey in his sandy hair, "Kippy" Tuck has always liked the social end of diplomacy, was best known for his correct parties, graceful dancing and pleasant, anecdotical conversation...
Descendant of an old Virginia family, Kippy Tuck, now 51, has spent most of his life in Europe. (His father was, for a quarter century, presiding judge of the Mixed Tribunal at Cairo.) Kippy went to school in Switzerland and Germany, returned to the U.S. to graduate from Dartmouth (1913). Then he began a long odyssey through U.S. consulates, legations and embassies, became equally at home in the salons of Paris, international cocktail parties in Geneva, the polo fields of Budapest...
...when liberal and radical elements in Europe as well as the U.S. were stirred by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he was consul at Geneva. One night an ominous crowd gathered in front of the consulate, shouted imprecations against "American killers." Tuck listened for a while, then slipped out to join the crowd, shouted in flawless French: "Give us the head of the American consul...
...Vichy, Tuck's knowledge of diplomatic personalities was a great help to Ambassador William D. Leahy. When Admiral Leahy returned to the U.S. to become Franklin Roosevelt's military adviser, Kippy Tuck took over. Salons, cocktail parties and polo fields are all closed but nowadays he would not care to play around. Watching the France he knew trodden under the Nazi heel has been bitter. Last week he had a chance to speak his wartime mind...