Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sportive pomposity amuses Mr. Boyd enormously. Most of the time it amuses the reader. His greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...
...make his legs into springs. It was the Prince of Wales. He was trying for the amateur squash racquets championship of England. His opponent was one T. Bevan of the Guards. The scene was the Bath Club, London. How was he doing, this agile prince? His service was clever, his backhand singularly strong. Now and then he said something aloud in a voice at once fierce and hearty. "Well played." He said that over and over. Once he said something in a different voice. That was to himself, when he had won the second game. But T. Bevan, he kept...
...forward line of Austin, Hodder, and Beals is one of the best to represent the University in recent years. All three are clever with the stick, and Beals is exceptionally fast. Austin has a hard left shot, and thus far leads the University scorers with six goals to his credit...
...work of Baldwin and Slocum, the 1928 forwards, was particularly brilliant. The latter was the high scorer with six field goals and one free throw, but both were very clever in handling and passing the ball. At times the team work of the freshman quintet seemed to go to places. Slocum especially had a tendency to forget the rest of the team and play for himself. But these rough spots always crop out in early season games, and will undoubtedly be smoothed over before the regular schedule starts on January...
...concert. In addition to Stafford's performance, which kept the audience guessing, a "Vocal Unit" of 16 voices rendered several of the old time popular and college songs which have been in great demand lately. G. B. Moynahan '26, popular dancing expert gave several of his weird and clever exhibitions, in response to repeated encores...