Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard broke into the victory column the following autumn. The Crimson entered the game the under-dog, but soon proved its worth. When in the third period one of Cordingley's long punts hit the leg of a Princeton back, combs fell on the ball, and a moment later Piaffman entered the game and came through with a field goal. A safety in the closing period, which Princeton claimed to have made intentionally, made the final score...
Outraged peers cast copies of certain of the London newspapers upon their glowing autumn hearths; vowed that the House of Windsor had suffered a besmirchment...
Otto H. Kahn. In the tonneau of his limousine Otto Hermann Kahn (if the reporter had not made a mistake) settled himself for whatever reflections were his at that hour of an autumn afternoon. He might have thought, for a cigar puff or two, of widely separated and irrelevant things?of the year he served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call...
...sulk in the suburbs, write angry letters, tear up checks and send their sons to the University of Nebraska. The loss of these checks is more serious than the loss of the sons. There are always plenty of sons, but checks are ephemeral, and subject to seasonal influences. The autumn season, with its toll of games lost or won, profoundly affects the writing of checks. And checks build universities, while young men rarely inhabit them...
...rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...