Word: setter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other passengers on the Homeric focused much of their attention upon the chieftain of those eight blue-broidered heroes. Ed Leader, crafty coach, did not pass unobserved. "Al" Lindley, brainy, bespectacled stroke-setter, moved tall and silent down the decks. But the cynosure was James S. ("Jass") Rockefeller, Yale and Olympic crew captain...
...mouth, several times leaving me gasping weakly like a fish and chasing my poor brains in a jog-trot down a dusty, cloudy track. He had me in front of him,. hat in hand, at attention with a confounded stenographer peering at my face with the watchfulness of a setter dog whenever my answers were slow in issuing. I wish I had a transcript of the testimony, for when I emerged I found I couldn't recall a third of other argument...
William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University : "In Scribner's for April I wrote: 'My present Irish setter, Rufus H. Phelps, is ... the most literary dog I have ever known. He has been stroked by W. B. Yeats, patted by Hugh Walpole, petted by G. K. Chesterton, caressed by Joseph Conrad, and kissed by John Galsworthy...
...stroke problem, which has been causing Dr. Howe considerable worry ever since the race with M. I. T. on May 13, was definitely settled yesterday afternoon, Amory, last year's Freshman captain, replacing Brown in the pace-setter's position...
Seabury Cook of New Bedford, chosen to stroke Crew A, has already proved his ability as a pace setter, notably in the Freshman race last fall against the University boat. In addition to Cook, three other former members of A. C. M. 1-Curran, Welsman, and Bangs-have won berths in the first shell, while only two members of the victorious football crew made seats. Kelley, at number 7, rowed that position on the second football boat, and Hastings was formerly placed...