Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sebastian on his return from Paris when Caryl, told by Gemma of Sebastian's relations with Fenella, kicks him downstairs. Sebastian promptly calls Fenella and runs away with her. But this time Caryl profits. Like most things brilliant, Sebastian's charms are not particularly adaptable. When Caryl, bent on delivering a message to Sebastian and resigned to the loss of Fenella, finds them together, he discovers that all is not harmony between them, that Sebastian is thinking of Gemma, Fenella thinking of Caryl. After that Caryl takes Fenella away. Sebastian will go back to Gemma, who will...
...Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...
Clerk Belt entered the room and bent over the vice president. "Who did the shooting?" he said. Vice President Gray stared at him with pale, fixed eyes. "That is obvious," he said before entering a coma from which he never emerged...
...Feng and Chang are Northerners. North and South China are agelong foes. But last week Southerner Chiang Kaishek, President at Nanking, could at least boast that he had broken and hurled back if not destroyed the armies of Yen and Feng which last spring seemed bent on his extermination. Next spring will be another spring...
During the second quarter H. H. Broad-bent '32, took the ball down the field and drove a hard shot at the second team goalie. With a desperate effort, Faude stopped the kick, but was drawn out of position far enough to enable Frame to take the shot as it ricochetted from the goal, and drive it back again for another score. The final score for the winners was made by J. W. Carrigan '31, who garnered a goal on a long accurate kick that came at an unexpected moment...