Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark Hodder's first Varsity puck team will not carry off the laurels in either the international or the Quadrangular League. But no sane Crimson hockey rooter really expected the squad to show any fireworks this year. Faced with the problem of a comparatively inexperienced team with practically no veteran material and with only one really outstanding star, Hodder has had a difficult situation in his first year at the new job, and the team's record of four wins, four losses, and one deadlock to date, is actually a fine tribute to the system of Hodder's coaching...
Sikeston's "Pole Cat" is Editor Charles Blanton himself, a salty, 75-year-old veteran of small-town journalism whose son Henry is Federal District Attorney in St. Louis, whose daughter, Catherine, is Senator Pat Harrison's secretary in Washington. Incensed by the Negro sharecroppers who camped alongside a road in nearby New Madrid County last month, "The Pole Cat" backed up and let fly as follows: "The question was asked if the babies and small children in the exodus to the roadsides had milk to drink, and was answered by an onlooker that the only milk given...
Dartmouth, at present leading the Quadrangular League with two wins and no defeats, has a fast veteran squad and should provide a severe test for the Crimson. Although the Indians stand one notch below Harvard in the International League, they have a very smooth-working outfit which, according to Hanover supporters has failed to show its true potentialities in the League race...
Emma Eames (pronounced Ames), great soprano of the "golden age of opera," still handsome at 73, emerged from 30 years' retirement to speak over the radio in Manhattan and broadcast records of her once-golden voice. Said Veteran Eames: "I used to work terribly hard, now work bores me to death. I live entirely for pleasure...
Individual entrants will probably include Charley Smith and Bob Gammons, who did 5.5 in the 60 yard dash at the Millrose Games; Mason Fernald, veteran hurdler; Steve Madey, dark-horse pole-vaulter and erstwhile softball pitching wizard, who should top 13 feet; Charley Oldfather, lanky Sophomore who will run the 1000; Gene Clark, who last year covered the mile stretch in 4.25; Pen Tuttle, whose entrance in the two mile run is doubtful after an illness earlier this week; and Bob Partlow, Sophomore broad and high jump flash, who does around 22 feet, 6 inches in the former event...