Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a scoreless third stanza, in which the Terriers backchecked furiously and seemed content with a tie, the game went into sudden death overtime. Almost immediately Forbes Keith got a breakaway in the B.U. zone and, racing to the Crimson blue line, shot a tricky bouncer into Charlie Flynn's pads. For a second the rebound stopped dead six feet in front of the poised Flynn. Terrier captain Jack Murphy got around the defense and slapped in the loose puck for the deciding goal...
...Lindsay and Crouse were to revise it extensively, especially in the first act, so as to place more emphasis on humor and less on melodrama. Past experience seems to indicate that any play starring the Lunts has a chance to become a hit. The authors should not be content, however, to let their stars reputations draw the crowds...
...parodies of college life and faculty members which appeared between 1910 and 1930. All of these were printed privately at the authors' expense or by the boards of the Lampoon. For the most part, these little "cartoon and comment" books were of the same rather inferior quality and content as their recent relative--Gullible's Travels Through Harvard, which had microscopic success in Cambridge last winter. By far the best were two printed by the Lampoon writers...
...inspiration becomes his leading actress, Hortense Schneider. And Hortense, a broad minded girls, finds emperors and generals as attractive as composers, and inspiration fails Offenbach. He then writes an operetta satirizing the vagaries of wandering Hortense; and the operetta, La Belle Helene, is a grand success. Offenbach is content. Hortense is content. Paris is content...
...monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones in gold and leaves her sons naked," chided St. Bernard of Clairvaux. But in their devotion to Mary, the medieval sons of Paris were content so long as they could carry the stones...