Word: alf
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...creatures of an inevitable fate - too strong to be rolled in the mire, and only strengthened and chastened by their past. The story is not altogether sombre, however, though one might reasonably ask that a little more cheerfulness had been scattered here and there throughout a tale essentially sad. Alf Escott is the only really cheerful figure, and what one sees of him at first hand is very telling in its lightening effects; but the book is so largely a narrative in the past tense, and the incidents in Escott's life are so persistently unfortunate, that one thinks more...
...polo grounds, New York, Monday, a benefit was given the veteran trainers, Jack Goulding and Alf Badger, and a number of athletic sports were had. F. P. Murray tried to beat the heel-and-toe record for one mile. He made the half in 3m. 2 2-5s., and finished the full distance in 6m. 36 1-2s. The best on record is Eugene R. Merrill's 6m. 32 3-5s. ; Merrill's time for half a mile is 3m. 3s., which Murray beat by a fraction of a second. On the same occasion L. E. Myers...
...that he knew me, for he pretended to be greatly absorbed in a copy of the London Times. But I went up and greeted him heartily; and then I seated myself at the table, and ordered a brace of mutton-chops and a glass of 'alf-and-'alf. Tennyson was eating corned beef and cabbage with great relish, and I noticed that he invariably divided the portion of food upon his plate into triangular bits before conveying the same to his mouth. I asked him his reasons for so doing, but he did not give me a very satisfactory answer...