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Word: blithest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond was sitting at the end of a grey stone pier dangling his legs out over the water's edge like a little boy. In mind he was as happy as the blithest child of ten, for free at last of Divisional he had come down to the seashore to watch the last splashes of paint go on his boat before she went over into the water for another season. Clad in a blue Brittany shirt, bleached and streaked with white from long hours in the sun, knee length shorts that showed pock-marks of paint of as many colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

...there is any need of exposing conditions in the past of Harvard football, "Time Out" supplies material for the blithest of muckrakers. In what year Mr. Forman played football "in a large university" we cannot determine; he is not listed, under that name, in the Harvard records. If there has been at Harvard "barbarism and brutality, the savage tyranny of coaches, frenzied methods of whipping up fighting spirit," Mr. Forman has exposed all this. But we seriously doubt the truth of his assertions. Neither do we believe for one moment that, as the publishers say, "Time Out" will...

Author: By R. C., | Title: BOOKENDS | 12/2/1931 | See Source »

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