Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gene Emerson will start at the points. Hicks ordinarily pairs with Russ Allen, but the latter is still favoring his injury incurred in the Princeton game and will not dress for tonight's encounter. He is expected to be ready for full time duty after Christmas. Hicks is looking better than ever this season, and Emerson, an alternate defenseman last year, is quite competent of filling Allen's shoes...
...very appreciative of appreciation, collects, reads and rereads every small item that is written about him in the most provincial newspapers. On the subject of his interpreters he is diplomatic, has indiscriminately praised Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham, Werner Janssen and his countryman Robert Kajanus. He has a comforting motto: "Better have it played badly or wrong than...
...honor. The other guests were 260 local morticians. The menu on which they dined included filet mignon, four varieties of wine, champagne, liqueurs. Fussed and entirely too nervous to eat, Adman Burns bobbed around at the testimonial dinner while Boss Stern told undertakers: "You have made Philadelphia a better place to live in, and a better place to pass...
...point of service as well as of age. The University of Pennsylvania publicists, who snapped Alumnus Guilford up to exploit that institution's bicentennial celebration in 1940, claim that Dr. Guilford is the world's oldest doctor and the oldest graduate of a U. S. university. Still better publicity was the fact, that for Thanksgiving dinner Dr. Guilford ate turkey, two helpings of mince pie, took some wine, smoked an extra (fourth) cheroot...
...take the last step, and the hardest one, you have to have a certain insanity born in you. Perhaps 'genius' is a better word. It's a certain inspirational spark...