Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defend Judge Greenwood in the ensuing debate, now arose National Democratic Committeeman James H. Moyle of Utah, a bulky, bearded, monogamous* Mormon, who declared that he had come prepared to discuss principles, not politicians. "You men do not represent Western sentiment," he frowned. "Why mislead the East that there is a great movement being launched in the West when you men know you only want him for a candidate because you like...
...Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion of France, champion of England, lost the first three holes to Mrs. Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile Maureen Orcutt, whose name (someone observed) sounds like a hair tonic, destroyed the alien Miss Mackenzie-2 and 1 Miss Orcutt is metropolitan champion and the huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal to the finals. They pointed...
...Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost. Overwhelmed by duties incident to the general direction of athletics at Michigan, the grey-haired gridiron notable turned the post of head coach over to his right hand man, Tad Weiman. One of the most famed coaches of all time, Yost has won nine Western Conference championships out of 15. Since 1901, his teams have scored 5,989 points; their opponents 834. Yost's retirement came almost coincidentally with the announcement from New Haven that famed Tad Jones was in his last year as Eli coach...
Including Weiman's Michigan squad, some 1,000 men reported to coaches of the Western Conference...
...steam engines, driven by an imitation of its inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that panted first in 1831 puffed slowly down the tracks. The General was there, an engine of the old Western & Atlantic R. R., bearing the scars of Civil War battles-battles in which it had brought powder and shot, in which it had been captured by the Confederates and recaptured by the Boys in Blue. There was a Wells-Fargo express stagecoach which had once carried gold-dust from...