Word: butch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton, N. J. May 8. Princetonian held first practice today. President's daughter threw out first ball. Butch Burnham runs bases for Captain Stevens who has not yet recovered from weekend and refuses to throw in farther than second from center field. Burnham elected pitcher by rising vote. Team will draw lots for batting order tonight. Team finished practice stiff but happy. Soft ball will be in good shape for Saturday Insignia box car couchant on field of buckwheat in hoe signo vincet...
...Pitcher, Butch Burnham: Catcher Roar of the Crowd Brigham: first base, Powell: second base, Nicholas: short stop, Keeu; third base, Lee: right field, Who Stole the People's Money Rockenberg; center field, Captain Tough Customer Stevens; left field, Cy and I Confess Sloane: Substitutes, Graves, Boston, Bean, Broad, Parsons: water boy and bad boy mascot, chairman of the Tiger, Price Day. Daily Princetonian
...classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...
...quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World and the Herald Tribune...
...cast follows: Effle, Miss Edith Noyes Ma, Miss Doris Halman Jenny, Miss Mary Secoy Ruth, Miss Verna Barr Slug, J. J. Collier '23 Rat, Conrad Salinger '23 Happy, L. M. Pearson 2G. Big Bill, Robert Levin ocC. Nels, Stuart Martin John, H. W. Bates Shiney, E. P. Goodnow '17 Butch, Alexander Hamilton '25 Jarnigan, Randall Burrell...