Word: boot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded. When the pirates board the Kin Lung they first attach a Malay boot to Captain Gaskell's right foot.* Says oily MacArdle: "Why, it's breaking my heart to see you suffer like this. I can't bear it. . . . Please tell them where it is. . . ." Then the pirates begin reaching into the ladies' dresses for their jewels. Routed...
This is not mere professional pollyannaism, although the uniformly bright and unrealized prognostications of the last two years may make it seem so. The first year here, Fesler was up against a new job, and a not-too-superb bunch of players; to boot, it was his first responsible coaching job. The year's record was unmistakably poor, but it is not easy to bring a new style of play into this stronghold of toryism and reaction, nor is it easy to inspire a team from which the spark has been extinguished by years of consecutive defeat. Then too, factional...
...Court, who is a mere 59. He was a corporation lawyer in Pennsylvania until President Coolidge put him in charge of the criminal prosecution of the Naval Oil Scandals. He sent Albert Bacon Fall to jail for a year, and made a great public name for himself, to boot. On the Supreme Court, to which President Hoover appointed him in 1930, he has been conservative-he voted with the majority on the Oklahoma Ice case-but he has also been New Dealish, voting with the liberals on the Minnesota Mortgage and New York Milk cases...
...alert team with a superb back in Les Lindberg, Illinois blocked an Army kick in the first quarter, then settled down to defend a 7-point lead. Army got two chances to score, missed both. On a field so muddy that he had to dry the ball and his boot every time he wanted to kick. Lindberg's punts went where he wanted them. Illinois 7, Army...
...rate as this news hound journeyed past Gales Ferry where the Yale football team had taken over the crow headquarters for their own use, noted more activity than was usual in New England on the Lord's Day. Perhaps he heard the bark of signals; perhaps the thud of boot on taut pigskin; perhaps the creaking of the tackling dummy. In any event his curiosity was aroused and he started to investigate...