Word: wrest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last September, Wrest Point and Annapolis agreed to disagree about football eligibility rules, scheduled a game for 1932. Equally unexpected last week was the news of another football reconciliation- between Princeton and Harvard, whose falling out in 1926 followed a game that Harvard thought was too rough, and a particularly rude issue of the Harvard Lampoon. Athletic Directors William J. Bingham of Harvard and Thurston J. Davies of Princeton issued a terse joint statement: "Arrangements have been completed for two football games between Harvard and Princeton, the first to be played in Cambridge on Nov. 3, 1934, the second...
...anywhere. Jack Buckler, a yearling from Waco, substitute this season for Ken Fields, is a case in point. So is rapid little Quarterback Vidal. Brother of a famed Army end, Gene Vidal, who was on the team in 1916-17, he finished school at 15, waited a year, entered Wrest Point when he was still under age. This season, his first as a member of the first-string team, he was Army's best broken field runner. He will be graduated next spring...
Insatiable admirers of Marlene Dietrich will swarm to this, her latest starring vehicle, will stay to be bored, and will understand at last why Paramount sought to wrest some manner of control over her acting and stories from the stubborn von Sternberg. For whatever fault, and there is much, which can be found in this cinema may be placed on the doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert...
...15th Pennsylvania District than elsewhere. While Postmaster General Brown in Washington was announcing that he would no longer "invite nor follow suggestions" from Congressman McFadden on local patronage, Mrs. Pinchot, whose Milford home is in the rural 15th, was announcing that she would attempt to wrest the McFadden seat in the House away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation...
...They're not warriors by any means and they really hate to fight. I know the Chinese well. Anyone who knows China's long history, the characteristics of the race, the vastness of the country, must realize that for Japan or any other nation to try to wrest from them any part of their territory would be an impossible task. . . . Their greatest weapon is the economic boycott, and they are also masters at passive resistance. . . . One of the difficulties in Manchuria is that many Chinese have the belief-the obsession I might call it-that we covet Manchuria...