Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectre of Harvard impotence in sport is laid. The hockey team has delivered the first blow to the bogey of Crimson disaster. The autumnal gloom, deepened by defeats which were foreseen and could not be averted, is dispelled in a cheerier season. The pride of Yale has skated to a tumble...
...Salvation, gave it up, started a hash-house. Sometimes he was up, sometimes he was down, always he was lonely, always there were the women. Mr. Black must have known a lot of Stacys; he makes this one significant because he is almost perfectly average. If too many klaxons blow in this book, if people seem to skid into each other's lives, trip each other up, like passengers at a slippery crossing, it is because the life Mr. Black has chosen to observe is like that; people are hatched too fast, buildings rise too quickly, traffic is hard...
...deadly efficiency of the Japanese is, unbeknownst, giving the death-blow to a tradition of comic literature. The bow-legged English of the Oriental schoolboy has long held its place in the humorist's schedule. Whenever the public mouth seems inclined to relax to a comfortable position, a letter in pidgin English restores to it the contortion of lips which passes current for an appreciation of humor. Certain Japanese, with the connivance of Americans, are trying to teach in their schools English "as is" English...
...whole business is simply one more proof of the many times repeated assertion that study of the classics is rapidly disappearing from American education in spite of everything that is being done to save it. This is the final body-blow, a wretched plot organized by enthusiastic students and professors of science, who hope to see the last defences of Greek and Latin blotted out in the shadow of the eclipse...
...three-the blows fell on a large slate tablet engraved with a golden cross. At the third blow the tablet cracked across. The door did not seem to budge. Pope Pius faced about and returned to his throne...