Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic equestrian, she bemoaned the fact that "of an afternoon" prior to the shooting of her picture "Top of the Town", she came a cropper. "The horse was named Prince Charming; that made it worse. I was slightly upset," she said...
...result of this triumph over the Jaspars has resulted in a confident crew at the Now Brunswick school, and they are leading for Cambridge determined to upset to Crimson Varsity eight. That is a tough assignment, and the way things look down at Newell at present an almost impossible one. But the race last Saturday against Manhattan was encouraging, and commenting on it, Coach Logg said: "The varsity rowed a creditable race which augurs well for the future...
This is the second game with the Lions, the Mitchellmen having casily trimmed them in New York on the spring trip by a 14-1 score in seven innings. At that time Columbia looked like a very weak aggregation, but last week it upset all the dope by beating Princeton without much trouble, and Princeton overwhelmed Harvard...
...improvement displayed by the crew over the past year has been nothing short of remarkable. Carrying forward after a series of disheartening defeats in the early part of last spring, the first boat rallied its forces to score a major upset over Yale in June, leaving the Elis miles up the Thames. The coming of Tom Bolles added coals to the rising fire of enthusiasm, and now the triumph at Princeton marks the first win in a sprint race since the golden days of Killer Cassidy...
...comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading to the sports page: "You've got to have some certainties at breakfast. You've got to have some English...