Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...column was given prominence to the most beautiful bit of balderdash on the subject of alleged "dirty football" by Princeton, that has yet appeared. I say this with all due respect to the efforts in that direction of Messrs. Hubbard and Hardwick. One, Braden, who entered Harvard in the autumn of 1920 and graduated in 1926, accuses the 1919 Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost of $1000. This was all done by means of making the Princeton players familiar with the outlines of Jim Braden...
...being by the rise of class athletics, similar to those at Yale, and the innovation of inter-dormitory games. But Mr. Lowell passes over the first problem--that of over-emphasis--with the following laconic reference (specifically to the practice of having inter collegiate games every Saturday of the autumn)--"It tends to disturb seriously the work of education..." This is one of the numerous faults that the new sports policy is supposed to remedy...
...Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking off in it for Paris last autumn and burned up two of my companions. If successful this time we might we hinted, establish a transatlantic mail and passenger service...
...speak. He had some failures. He needed money (he had always spent copiously what he earned) and tried to get it in vaudeville, in the cinema. When he acted in George M. Cohan's The Tavern in 1920 people remembered what a good actor he could be. Last autumn he appeared in the Theatre Guild's production, Juarez and Maximilian. The week before he died he was headlined in a one-act play, Kidnapped, at the Flatbush Theatre, Brooklyn...
...those unhappy natures for whom existence remains an eternal enigma. With a genius essentially lyrical and subjective, he was unable to raise himself above the tragedy of his own life. "No poet of Northern Europe," says Robertson, "expresses as intensely a Lenau the feeling of 'eternal autumn', of unrelieved depair. And it is almost always a tragic despair, rarely that withering cynicism first made fashionable, by Byron asd imitated by Heine." Finally, when his life seemed on the point of becoming happier and brighter, he suddenly went insane...