Word: wallop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cowgirls in fo' gallon hats and white riding breeches, the delegates to Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen thought about their life insurance, President...
Captain Guest at No. 1 for Yale, led both teams in scoring, accounting for seven of his team's tallies. Cotton of Harvard and Wallop of Yale each scored four times, while white, at No. 2 for the Crimson scored four of his team's goals...
...first-year hitters to one run. Miyakawa, the flashy Japanese short fielder, continued to shine in the Crimson attack with two scored runs, two hits, and a base on balls. Donaghy wielded the heavy bludgeon in the afternoon's play. The Freshman third sacker drove out a four ply wallop in the first inning to account for one of the two runs scored in that frame...
...three hits, a base on balls and two errors gave the winners four tallies. Zarakov walked, Ellison sacrificed him to second. Todd was given life on a hard hit ball to short stop, while the University third sacker was scoring. Lord singled and Sullivan tripled on a long high wallop over the center fielders head. Scoring Todd and Lord ahead of him. The Crimson short stop crossed the plate on the same play when the throw to third went wide...
...Pugilistic comedy that lands risible solar plexus with an awful wallop...