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...suggested their readers might boycott the game on the ground that the Panthers would provide no opposition, scolded Washington for picking a pushover. If they read the publicity, the Panthers had sense enough to withhold comment until the ball was kicked off to them. The pushovers then began to push...
...they had immediately produced revolvers I would have instructed my wife to hand over her jewels, preferring not to take the risk of being shot. Moreover the jewels were insured. But they attacked the problem brusquely and the first thing I knew I had administered to them a push...
...lately-deceased Catholics who might fit Father Feeney's specifications, and whose friends could be counted upon to push their saintly causes, the best known would be Wartime Chaplain Rev. Francis P. Duffy, Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) and Football Coach Knute Rockne. All are known to have lived impeccable Catholic lives; two met violent deaths. But no instance has yet been publicized of miracles having been performed through their intercession...
...Mary Haines discovers through gossipy friends that her husband has become involved with a perfume salesgirl, her sage mother advises her to ignore the whole matter (as she did 30 years before) and keep her husband and her home at the cost of her pride. But the gossipy friends push Mary remorselessly along the Reno trail with all its bitterness...
During a "hot jam," Frenchman Emile Ignat, who was being relieved by his partner, Frenchman Emile Diot, gave Diot such an enthusiastic starting push that Diot's wheel wobbled and Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided...