Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London stage now offers the following: What Every Woman Knows, Partners, Oliver Cromwell, David Copperfield, At Mrs. Beam's, Robert E. Lee, So This is London, Success, Tons of Money, Lilies of the Field, Secrets, Ranny's First Play, R.U.R., Polly, The Beggars' Opera and at least half a dozen musical shows...
Ever since the spider took nine tries to reach the opposite beam and Robert Bruce nine tries to defeat the English, the figure nine has been accredited with extraordinary mystical powers. Fail once, then try eight more times, and on the ninth attempt success will result. If nine tries are too exhausting, three might do. "Thrice the brinded cat hath spowed," said the witch in Macbeth, and undoubtedly her use of the number was highly significant. But there are some numbers that apparently mean nothing...
...Success" is said to be the only remaining ship of the old British felon fleet. She was built in 1790 at Moulmein, British India, and was originally used as an armed East India merchantman. Her tonnage is 1100, and she is 135 feet long with 30 foot beam. She is built throughout of solid Burmese teakwood. In 1802 the "Success" was chartered by the British government to transport to Australia the overflow from the home jails. There she became a floating prison to which men were sentenced for terms varying from seven years to life, often for what...
...generation ago which sought to encourage industrious habits among the young, though its advice, if followed now, would violate child labor laws. It urged to work unceasingly: to work while the dew was sparkling, in and "mid springing flowers"; to work through the "sunny noon" and till the "last beam fadeth". But it was a joyous hymn, except the line which anticipated the coming of the night "when man works no more". It is this sort of advice, but set to another tune, that Lenin has given to the Russians...
...morning, is admirable. Any sport with the strong attraction that football has should be enjoyed by as many participants as possible. From the nature of the game few men of light and intermediate weights can safely or profitably play football, yet there are numerous gridiron devotees who tip the beam below the University average. Wrestling, boxing, and rowing are conducted in avoirdupois divisions with beneficial results for light men; why not football...