Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...division a close contest quickly developed between Harvard's representatives, Robert E. Sherwood and Heywood Broun, authors and critics, and Yale's stalwarts, Stephen Vincent Benet, famous author, and John Thomas, Armed with chalk, each contestant faced a blackboard, waving a paper of definitions in one hand and writing vigorously with the other. For a time it was anybody's match but Benet and Thomas spurted toward the end and won by several words in record breaking time...
...painted a picture of the Crucifixion-Holy Mary, in peasant costume, her face twisted with anguish, weeping over the naked body of her peasant son. The authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over its surface. Furious, Painter Bakst renounced the Court, left Russia with his wife, who had been Mlle. Tretiakov, daughter of a former Mayor of Moscow...
...CHALK FACE-Waldo Frank-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). John Mark was a doctor and a genius, albeit a young one. He loved "Mildred, chaste as thought, Mildred, deep as discovery, Mildred, remote and imminent as truth!" Two things stood between him and Mildred-his parents' opposition to the match and a rival whom he had never seen. The rival was murdered under circumstances of which he was mysteriously conscious. Shortly thereafter, his parents were also assassinated. In both crimes, a strange figure with a white head was curiously implicated. John Mark began to feel that he himself was in some...
...September 29-Encouraged somewhat by Dartmouth's 40 to 0 victory over the scrappy Norwich eleven afternoon in preparation for the Green's launched his third week's compaign this here Saturday afternoon, Coach Hawley next game with McGill. Today's practice was light including a long chalk talk, reviewing the Norwich game, and a short signal drill on the Memorial Field gridiron...
...jurors as for the vehemence of his crossexamination. "The truth will come to you," he said in his address to the jury on his own behalf (characterized as "perhaps the most brilliant achievement of his career" by the New York World), "clearly and suddenly as though written with chalk on a board, and you will know me innocent. I leave with you all that the world holds dear...