Word: upstart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy pomp of conquerors. But for the nonce the illusion of youth's vigor still lingers. The "soldiers" of Grand National Commander Louis Arensberg (also "Dr. Arensberg") of Uniontown, Pa., have responded to their leader's call, and have come together 'round his standard without help from any upstart impertinent enough to have fought for liberty later than Gettysburg...
...rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year's winner. The score was 6-2, 6-4, 6-0. Paired with his brother Robert, Kinsey took the doubles from Lott and Bryan Norton (onetime South African Davis Cup star, now of St. Louis), after dropping...
...Moltke's bust vanished, but also that of Bismarck. Der Teufel! This was too much. In a body, they stormed the Reichstag's Decoration Committee, demanding loudly and angrily to be told why the great heroes of the Empire had been deposed in favor of an upstart Republican...
...Upstart...
...formed. Up leapt Mr. Gettis. His old hand, rivered with dull veins, blotched along the back with great patches like distended freckles, hardened into a knot, smote the bully upon the chin, dropped him to the sidewalk. Said Mr. Gettis: "I'm not too old to thrash an upstart...