Word: whitewashes
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...York University is on the so-called football firmament. As yet you have to remark on the recent victories of the coming Eastern football champions, the noteworthy 30-0 whitewash given to Rutgers, etc. The students of New York University do not threaten to revoke their subscriptions to your most interesting periodical, because they like it too much, but still they feel that the meritorious record of the football team representing N. Y. U. deserves mention in your columns. Thank...
...Freshmen Whitewash Weston...
...Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle no one. The only thing to do is to reverse the point of view, whitewash villains and smear angels with lamp-black until all are reduced to neutral gray...
...days before her previous appearance before the court. She maintained that by his manner he had tried to intimidate her, that he had told her she must not say the fatal flight of the Shenandoah was political; she declared she believed that the Navy had set out to whitewash the Shenandoah accident. The day after Captain Foley's visit he had sent her a paper containing a suggested statement for her to make to the court. This "twisted the facts," she said; she took exception to one part which said: "My husband regarded the Shenandoah as a manofwar...
...bags had been removed before her trip: '. would not call it murder, but I cannot put it too strong that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which was the foolish action of the crew at the station in changing the valves. Already they are trying to lay the blame on poor dead Landsrowne...