Word: kicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, an hour came when the spotlight unavoidably played on him. He marched in to see Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and delivered to Japan in the name of the U. S. a vigorous diplomatic kick in the pants. The booting took the form of a long, strong reply to Japan's "unresponsive" answer last November to Secretary Hull's protest against Japan's slamming the open door in China to U. S. trade. Its chief points...
...time it looked as if Texas Christian's little Davey O'Brien, most sensational footballer of the year (he completed 93 out of 167 passes), might become the disappointment of the finale. The Scoreboard read Carnegie Tech 7, Texas Christian 6- because little Davey had failed to kick the extra point. But in the second half, Quarterback O'Brien resumed his role of hero, led his team to another touchdown and kicked a last-quarter field goal that not only gave Texas Christian the game, 15-to-7, but stamped it as one of the greatest football...
Lane is planning to take a football onto the stage of the Hippodrome Theatre at the Student Jamboree on Tuesday evening, December 27, and to kick it out into the audience with a streamer attached bearing some legend having to do with the key-note of the convention, which is "Keep Democracy Working by Keeping It Moving Forward...
Fame & Fortune. Tall, husky, wearing expensive sloppy clothes, living in a Manhattan penthouse, fussed over by a devoted male secretary. Odets clearly enjoys his success. In the first golden days when he was hoisted into fame, he got a great kick from going to parties, being seen out with Beatrice Lillie and Tallulah Bankhead, weekending with Helen Hayes and her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...
...long winter evenings first cropped up in Lowell House where it is now rapidly replacing all other House sports. In principle it is simple. If the contestants feel like good sports they divide into two teams, one of which defends the fireplace against the efforts of the others to kick a tennis ball past the andirons. If the players feel like bad sports the practice is to assign one person, someone not very well liked to defend the hearth against all attacks. This has been the most popular form of the game...