Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton will encounter a Harvard varsity hokey team that has been considerably chastened in the Crimson's next major battle at Princeton on January 14. Saturday night's overwhelming defeat, 8-1, at the hands of a whirlwind Toronto team n New York has left the Cambridge skaters in a sad plight. Although the Crimson got the jump at the start and repeatedly carried the puck to the visitor's cage, the Toronto goalie, Shipp, prevented a score by some miraculous stops during the first 15 minutes of the Harvard offense. It was not until the second period that...
...recalls that day when a woman upset the staid order of affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie National made a whirlwind campaign to woe the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet-swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid modern prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls...
...what happened in the past become so distorted by their anxiety to persuade that they are positively grotesque. One can watch the process of intellectual disintegration as the candidates keep on talking through the interminable weeks of the campaign. In this atmosphere, the loser generally resorts to a whirlwind campaign, and the winner is greatly tempted to make promises in all directions...
...observer saw him pay for some punch with an old-fashioned big $1 bill.) Carmen, unlike murky Tom-Tom, was spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience was bothered the first night by "Canadian soldiers" (Ephemeridae, big-winged lake flies, called "Yankee soldiers" in Canada), but well pleased were they, especially...
...compact little Curtiss fighter, "the smallest plane which could be built around a 420-hp. Whirlwind," one of five built for the Navy for installation within the airship Akron...