Search Details

Word: cames (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...more I mull about the matter the greater becomes my puzzlement that Princeton should have taken the decisive step in the break with Harvard. No college ever eat prettier than the Tigers. Year after year they met the Crimson team after a disappointing season and always they came to life to perform prodigies and win a brilliant victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...high hat. Whether or not this complaint is well founded makes very little difference. It is never necessary to establish a complete case in order to set up a symbol. To Princeton, Harvard became the archtype or token of snobbery and superciliousness. And out of this idea came great benefits to young men who were the orange and the black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

California's second-and third-string Bears got 21, then the first team came in for a workout. California 53, Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came Eskimos who guided them over the jagged ice to hospitality. Colonel McAlpine had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is as emotional as his own typewriter, and this defect, which he parades as did the fox in the fable, has stood in the way of his writing a great play. He despises love, and therefore cannot appeal deeply to mankind." Wagner's Parsijal is dismissed as "that bizarre compound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | Next