Word: waterlooed
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...Frequent Waterloo...
...previous years, Harvard has found the hilly course at Nassau a frequent Waterloo, as the flat lay-out along the Charles had given the Mikkolamen no preparation for the gruelling hill-and-dale affair of the Tigermen. This year, however, Coach Jaakko had his men working out on the Brookline Country Club roughs and fairways, building up a stamina which proved the winning factor for the race...
...Duke of Wellington, in the course of shooting grouse in Scotland, shot the fundament of a female Scottish peasant full of birdshot, His Grace testily made no apology, and a member of his entourage observed: "The good woman should have been honored by any contact with the Victor of Waterloo...
...family insanity "had softened down to a curious, harmless and most effective eccentricity." He was frequently drunk, but no more so than most English aristocrats of that period. His delusions, that he had defeated many butchers and bakers in fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father a raving lunatic. His relations with women, his financial dealings, were truly abominable, but he had been brought up in a harsh school, and the sudden release to such license as the age permitted would have strained...
...Broadus, Mont., disqualified because the chief ingredients of her vegetable soup are beef knuckles and heel of beef. Also calculated to put Britons into stitches was the revelation that an egg dumpling soup was entered in the vegetable classic by Mrs. S. H. Long, No. 403 Sunnyside Ave., Waterloo, Iowa...