Word: bidden
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...goal line has been crossed more than once during the season, while to its powerful offense Harvard will oppose a defense which has been continually growing in strength. It cannot be doubted that the Harvard team has had, hidden somewhere within it, great potential power; and if that bidden power is ever to be drawn out and made a reality, it will be done this week when the team reaches the climax of its season. That is a problem, however, for the coaches alone. What the undergraduate body can do tonight at the Union, tomorrow at the field, and Saturday...
Cousin Egbert was possessed of a considerable fortune but no table manners. Therefore he was deported to Paris by his socially hopeful relatives and bidden to acquire culture. In the process he takes unto himself a valet and returns with the valet to Red Gap. The premier performance of the piece is given by Ernest Torrence as uncouth Cousin Egbert. Second in command is Lois Wilson...
...sort of animal to respond to such behests. It is not hopeless to remind certain of them that they are guests of honor and that according to the laws of politeness they should attend. Tonight Thayer Hall and, as always, men living outside the Yard, are particularly bidden to the Hollis-Matthews entertainment...
...appears to me to be much less serious than the fact that there is a distinct advantage to be gained from brutality and the evasion of the rules--offenses which, in many instances, the officials cannot detect because they are committed when the players and the ball also are bidden from the eyes of the umpire. For these reasons I have come to believe that the game ought to be radically changed...
...ability the lives of a nation, and to brave misrepresentation and obloquy. Furthermore, the leader should possess sympathies so democratic, that, while above his followers, he may yet understand them and be one of them. True leaders are not cynics, but men who can aid and evoke in others bidden powers and hidden good...