Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pointers seems to be the only casualty of any consequence. S. L. Batchelder '31, who has been out for some time with a twisted ankle, returned today only to suffer a reoccurrence of the injury while carrying the ball. It is believed that he will be able to face action Saturday...
...often he voiced the assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...
...went ahorseback to his quarries. The early hour results from two factors. The quarries are quick to heat, and work is hard after the 10 a. m. sun begins to burn. And Quarryman Guido Murray Fabbricotti is not wholly Latin. His indolent Italian temperament is pricked into action by the Scottish blood of his mother. Guide's father, Bernardo Fabbricotti, 64 years ago, married Helen Murray, a Scotch noblewoman of sorts. Son Guido inherited the quarries of his father and the early rising hours of his mother-together with an English public school accent and a love for good...
...have torchlight parades. Both parties would be in both parades, such was the desire to be in or everything. On one occasion we had got down beyond Central Square when someone yelled out 'Freshies' from an upper window, with some justification. Potatoes were immediately put into action, and one first year man, whom I did not know, felt very much offended, for he was jumping around, waving his hands, and hurling violent epithets in the direction of the window. Well, that boy was Theodore Roosevelt...
...that Smith is better prepared than Hoover for the job seems to me to ignore their respective records. To say that Smith expresses a greater desire for action than Hoover on certain national issues seems to me to confuse a loud voice with a quieter attitude. Their familiarity with undergraduate "bull" should help them to avoid this mistake. With the statement that Smith, if elected, will arouse the citizens of the United States, I agree...