Word: chucking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lake Cayuga last week, Yale's crew beat Cornell in the Carnegie Cup race-the first Cornell defeat of the season. Throughout the race it rained. Princeton, also competing, finished last. Where other crews use a long stroke, Princeton crews use a short, choppy stroke which Coach Chuck Logg learned at the University of Washington. Last week, Coach Chuck said he would not yet chuck his system...
...Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked one small girl...
...games, said the United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...
Among those falling by the wayside in last week's Western Amateur were: Frank Dolp, 1926 champion; Keefe Carter, 1925 champion; Chick Evans, eight times champion; Chuck Hunter, winner of the qualifying medal; John Ames, undergraduate son of Princeton's sinuous football player Knowlton ("Snake") Ames...
...shores of Lake Carnegie there were few more happy than Princeton Coach Charles ("Chuck") Logg, who rowed on the famed Washington crew which Mr. Leader coached...