Word: armes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They shine poorly in contrast with some of the short essays in this volume itself--as if Morley, realizing that all was not well, had inserted at judicious spots some of his arm-chair rather than word-desk writings. And there we found another difficulty at once. The book has two levels; one literary, one semi-journalistic, and we bounced around between the two for quite a time before we got used to the changes of pace. (There is a line mixed metaphor to serve as an opening for you, Chris...
Yesterday afternoon the team was given a holiday and with Coach Slattery went in to see the Red Sox play. Owen alone dressed for practice, and with Manager Fordyce behind the plate, tried out his pitching arm and then went through a little batting practice...
Battling Siki: "I was obliged to postpone my match with the British middleweight Moore because my arm was bitten by a lion I was trying to tame...
...South America in search of specimens. Such travel has its compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins and cormorants that had forgotten...
Moseley will probably start on the mounds for the Crimson, Casto having thrown out his arm in the Dartmouth game, while Puffer will be used as relief pitcher...