Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this arises from the fact that I myself am an Emerson graduate, one of my brothers has been graduated from the school, and a second is still in it. The last mentioned followed the herd struck too, but not with his parents' consent. M. THURSTON WARD West Lafayette, Ind. P. S. Be sure and give Purdue all credit due for its performance against dear old 'Arvard...
...Summerall Incident" closed, President Coolidge admitted that he had recalled Major General Charles Pelot Summerall from the West to have him explain his reported remarks about the "disgrace" of Army housing (TIME, Oct. 24); announced that General Summerall's disavowal of the remarks was accepted. The President talked Army budget matters with General Summerall...
...Along came "Dakota" Clyde Jones, the cowboy who gave President Coolidge riding lessons on Horse Mistletoe last summer.* Mr. Jones invited President Coolidge to a rodeo in Manhattan. The President got out his enormous Wild West hat, put it on, went out on the lawn with Mr. Jones to be photographed, said: "That will be enough rodeo for me this time...
...average 192, behind the line 180. This gargantuan group galloped gravely through Army 10-6, despite the sinewy protests of the most seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish little opposition after the first half...
Penn plunged grimly at Chicago and bounced back. For the first time in 29 years Chicago punished Penn, winning for the West the chief intersectional game of the afternoon...