Word: bobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad to see you deal try to give the "Christian General" a square deal which I believe he has seldom had in American or Engilsh newspapers. You mention Mr. Gailey without stating that he is "Bob" Gailey, erstwhile famous athlete at Princeton University, who has been giving a noble altruistic service in China for ten or more years...
...black-furred cub of a silver-tipped sire, boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette of Wisconsin, mounted the convention platform last week as his dead father had so often done before him, to voice the "conscience" of the G. 0. P. He followed Senator Smoot. He presented what has been called, since 1908 when the senior La Follette began the practice, "The Minority Report on the Platform...
...late Mr. Pierce fancied troutfishing so keenly that he had the produce of his fish-hatcheries and nurseries graded by size and put into 17 pools or "holes" in the Brule River flowing north through his property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take...
...Lampooners put up a game fight, but from the moment when Mayor Jimmy Walker, or at least some one who thought he looked like Jimmy, threw out the first ball they never had a chance. Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, started the game in the box but being somewhat erratic was soon replaced by Philip Hichborn '29. Hichborn found the going under foot somewhat slippery but on the whole did very creditably...
Closing reports last night from both State and Wall Streets indicated something akin to a serious financial panic following the rush of Lampoon supporters to cover bets which apparently were placed in a moment of mistaken confidence. Rumors that Philip Hichborn '29 would replace the veteran Bob Lampoon in the box for the humorists, and that V. O. Jones '28, versatile CRIMSON tosser, would be unable to play are believed to have caused the rash action of the Lampoon rooters. Word got around yesterday, however, that the CRIMSON is firmly resolved to maintain the integrity of its football traditions...