Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...perhaps the greatest and certainly the dirtiest master of low vernacular prior to Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Through blackmail, stark flattery, incredible effrontery, and a genius for spotlighting weakness wittily, he forced most of the greatest men of his time to pay his way and to acknowledge him as equal. His great friend Titian described him as "a condottiere (gangster boss) of literature." Biographer Chubb compares his fame to that of Byron, his influence to that of Voltaire...
...Could equal thy capacity...
...Herbert Hoover, now the newsreeling chum & consort of sports columnists, stage stars, debutantes, had amassed $2,500,000 in hard U. S. cash for Finnish relief. With unselfish enthusiasm he reported that twelve other groups were in the field, collecting with equal avidity. Mr. Hoover made a dramatically sudden appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee (his first before a Congressional Committee since he was Secretary of Commerce), said 7,000,000 Poles need aid-about $50,000,000 worth...
Captain Charlie Royer was highscorer for the evening with 14 tallies to his credit. Close on his heels was Bob Dobbyn with 10 points, Scully and Hall split third honors with eight counters, in a game in which Harvard and Yale were sharing equal odds in pregame wagering...
...team composed of players from Weld and Grays halls defeated the Thayer basketball team, 23 to 22 yesterday, to win the championship of the Freshman interdormitory basketball league. The game was a play-off after equal records of four wins and one loss by both teams...