Word: underdogs
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Later Farrell switched to a less convincing underdog, Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, bewildered, half-educated Chicago slum boy with intellectual yearnings. My Days of Anger is Volume IV of the O'Neill tetralogy. With a dreary hopefulness, it finishes what A World I Never Made dejectedly began...
...body, superbly carried, the pouched eyes, the air of expensive splendor were familiar too. Most familiar of all was the role. Massachusetts' former Governor and present Democratic National Committeeman, Boston's three-time Mayor, Congressman James Michael Curley has again been indicted, is again the underdog...
Hurrying to Washington to meet the latest indictment, America's most successful underdog missed no cue. Now, after a lifetime of oppression in Massachusetts, he was being crucified in Washington. Explained Curley, his ruddy, liverish face messianic: "I have . . . refused to be a rubber stamp while serving as a member of Congress. . . . Indictments, threats or pressure of any character shall not deter me from doing what in my judgment is best for the American people...
...When New York City's experimental, ad-less tabloid PM was born, few newsmen expected it to last long. This week PM is three years old and growing. Its policy is still the same: pro-underdog, proLabor, pro-Roosevelt. Its circulation has gone up since its 70,000 low near 1940's end, but is still a long haul from the estimated 250,000 PM needs to get into the black...
...vastly superior Crimson team smashed an underdog Boston University fencing team Saturday at the Indoor Athletic Building...