Word: bigelowe
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...long ago the famed novelist-historian H. G. Wells picked up a fat autobiography entitled Seventy Summers, by one Poultney Bigelow, aged U. S. journalist-lecturer, son of a former U. S. Ambassador to France...
...Wells read this crude bit of tittle-tattle, he experienced a pang of annoyance which he proceeded to vent by dashing off for the press his own version of his meeting with Mr. Bigelow on the afternoon in question...
...change in the topic meant no change in the quality of his discourse. The Charing Cross bridge was ugly, materialistic, rectangular. To people like Bigelow anything curved is more beautiful than anything rectangular...
...Bigelow's book] I am represented as a large traveling salesman sort of person pervading in Lady Russell's party with violent boastfulness about purely imaginary royalties that so galled Bigelow - that is, the sort of person he wanted me to be, and that's the sort of person he means me to be if lying can do it-and when the remarks about the Charing Cross bridge come in they are very generously ascribed to Anthony Hope, who is quite incapable of such stupidities...
...with his opponent for individual honors. The shifty Crimson center figured largely in the attack and stopped many of the Williams advances with an aggressive back checking game. The high scorer of the contest was Zarakov, who started the game at right wing for the University sextet. Coach Bigelow started his second forward line of Harding, Scott, and Zarakov, and alternated this combination with Gross, Hamlen, and Chase in every period. Pratt was used at the left defense post throughout the contest and played a large part in stopping the vaunted Purple attack...