Word: tufted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ford Sterling, 55 (real name, George F. Stitch), tuft-bearded, swizzle-eyebrowed chief of the Mack Sennett Keystone Cops later a stock cinemactor; of thrombosis; in Hollywood, Calif...
Although crushing Tufts, Stevens Tech, and M. I. T., the Stahleymen were utterly disrupted by the offensive tactic shown by Dartmouth. The expert passing and stick-handling of the Green players were too much for the defence, which was considerably weakened by the shifting of aggressive Norm Blotner from first defense to a midfield position. As a result of the Tuft and the Dartmouth matches, two of Skip Stanley's most reliable attack men, Sophomore Dong Anderson and Captain Phil Hammond, are on the sick list, and until they return, the team's scoring abilities are dangerously reduced...
When beardless, 32-year-old Leon Sedov, editor of a violently anti-Stalin Paris Russian-language paper, and son of the world's No. 1 exile, tuft-bearded Leon Trotsky,* died last week in Paris following an operation for an "intestinal obstruction." the world press was less interested in the death than in what heavy-hearted Trotsky...
...flushed a pair of birds, the native fired, the male of the pair dropped to the ground. It was Dr. Chapin's long-sought bird. Of the pheasant family, it was feathered in metallic blacks, blues, greens, reds, had a long pink neck, small head, a curious, strawlike tuft protruding from its forehead. He named it "Congo Peacock,'' soon learned it was fairly common, traveled in pairs, but lived only in virgin jungle. Last week Dr. Chapin arrived back at his Manhattan office, and with satisfaction seasoned by 24 years of anticipation spread out on a table...
...trails in New Hampshire and has built a great many himself. Some of those he has built are the Wild Cat at Pinkham Notch and all other trails in the Pinkham Notch district, the Tuckerman Ravine Trail, the Bear Mountain run at Bartiett, the Chocerua run, and the Tuft trail at Francenia...