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Jack Carr's squad start their games early. If you have a few minutes and nothing to do before a football game, just drop over to the field across Boylston street. Watch captain Fred Stork at left inside hover vulture-like around the goal. Watch Mel Grover and Del Clos, both players all through Andover and Harvard, hold up the right side of the forward line. But the key to the whole situation lies in the half-back line, manned this year by John Dorman, Frank Vincent, and Ted Roosevelt. Dorman is a determined, untiring worker. He is a feeder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/16/1934 | See Source »

...Watching the dirigible Macon nose its way out of a cloud accompanied by two baby airplanes, hover overhead, drop a bundle of newspapers on the Houston, and head back for its Sunnyvale, Calif, base, 1,200 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Brief Annals | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Shades of Ann Pennington, of the beautiful legs, will hover over the austere halls of Lowell House on May 11, when the gorgeous Harriet Hilliard comes to grace the spring dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1934 | See Source »

...shades of a happier, more opulent day hover over the trial of Ervin F. Brown, a member of the defunct Hoover bureaucracy; his naive confessions on the witness stand are of the stuff from which "Of Thee I Sing" was made. Mr. Brown was chief investigator for the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor in New York, and he is accused of accepting bribes from a criminal alien who was awaiting deportation. Brown's bribe-taking operations, however, do not compare with his other activities. A generous man, he singled out deserving Republicans for reward; these men were made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/15/1933 | See Source »

...nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/12/1933 | See Source »

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