Word: whitewash
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...fact in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, who died in 1913 at the age of 53 and was, to put it simply, as mad as a hatter. He disgraced himself at Oxford by going to a fancy dress ball as a raven and voiding a pint of whitewash from his tail in front of the Prince of Wales. He converted to Roman Catholicism and, in pursuit of holy orders, got himself expelled from two different seminaries for "lack of vocation." He then assumed the bogus title Baron Corvo and tried his loser's hand at painting, photography, journalism...
Yale, which dropped a 2-0 decision to Brown last week, again failed to score in Ivy play. This week Columbia, notching its second consecutive whitewash, squeaked by the Elis on a first period goal...
...Artful Whitewash. Public opinion, nonetheless, continued overwhelmingly to support Hoover's view, which in turn reflected precisely the thoughts of Chi cago Mayor Richard Daley. The Mayor last week kept up his own counterbarrage to the "distortions" of the news media by broadcasting an hour-long documentary over 150 television sta tions throughout...
...Plant?" (meaning: "What constructive plans do protesters propose for the society of the future?"), the Daley defense was produced by Henry Ushijima, a California-born filmmaker who for five years has been paid by Chicago to turn out short documentaries celebrating the city. Actually, "Trees" was a surprisingly artful whitewash. In his handling of English, Daley is the Casey Stengel of American politics; he was wise enough to limit his physical participation in the film to two brief appearances. Ushijima waded through miles of television footage made during the convention week and spliced to gether scenes of New Leftist gatherings...
Commenting on their 6-0, 6-0 whitewash, Nash lamented "that was the most embarrassing defeat of my varsity career...