Word: tricks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doubted the existence of this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each day to express its opinion. The Public has more shapes than Geryon in a palace of trick mirrors, and less intelligence than Triceratops, who could have swallowed his brain at a gulp. It allows the "laws of economics" to provide its food and clothing; and when a great Strike supervenes, it puts its Great Seal of approval on Published Opinion, in some such form as this: Such...
...First half-hour--Harvard wins the toss and selects the wind. Arnold kicks off for Yale, sending a long kick down the field. Leeds springs a trick not known at Yale: he kicks the ball back again, Yale again kicks, and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks the goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field...
...supposedly feeble Bull Dog did come back. "Yale Awakens and Runs Wild," said the headlines. There was little resemblance between the hard hitting, smooth running machine which tallied 37 points against the Medfordians and the collection of players which had been routed the week before. The bewildering assortment of trick plays which Tufts uncorked failed to baffle the Blue line as they nailed the Blue and Maroon runner behind the line time and again. Tufts won their first down only twice. And despite the absence of Callahan, Murphy and Braden, the Elis pushed the disheartened men from Medford before them...
...scrimmage with the first Boston University eleven the third Freshman team yesterday was beaten by three touchdowns to two. Half of the game was played in darkness, and the visiting players had a variety of trick plays which the 1923 team was unable to diagnose...
...front cover gives Lampy's trick number a very swift start. Instead of satirizing Mr. Harrison Fisher's illustrating as Bud-of-the-same-family-name might do, Mr. Gross has given a drawing that faithfully pretends to be the real thing. On the strength of its cover alone, Lampy could go on sale at all news-stands this week and hit the million circulation mark itself...