Word: whitey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead is not the only famed bridge professional. There are also Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson,* Milton C. Work, Sidney S. Lenz, E. V. Shepard. They are Whitehead's friends, not his rivals. They call him "Whitey." His position is authoritative. Other experts have at times disowned or retracted strategies they once commenced. Not Whitehead. He is conservative, a grandfather. He comes from Columbus, used to be president of Simplex Automobile Co. when it made cars you could not wear out. The word "Simplex" was cut deep on a triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet...
Without the aid of little Coach Roper's cards to help them, Princeton's Wittmer and Miles and Requardt paused at crucial moments; "Whitey" Lloyd of the Navy did not, scoring a field goal from placement and a touchdown from Navy's 24 yard line. Thus Navy beat Princeton, which no other team has done this year...
...Maine woods where he hauled and hewed for a winter and acquired a new jauntiness which he employed effectively against Carpentier and Tom Gibbons. The men he had beaten before that were second raters: Herbert Crowely, Martin Burke, Wolfe Larson, Jack Ambrose, Eddie O'Hara, Whitey Meuzel, Fay Reiser. He did very well against them, this mild marine. A handsome lightheavy-weight, well-built but not particularly strong, intelligent but not brutal...