Word: crude
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...literary part of the number is made up of several short stories of fair merit. The first is a sketch of backwoods life called "The Captain of the Rocket." Some of the descriptive parts are well written but the style of the piece as a whole is a little crude. "Number 749" a matrimonial bureau story, is well written, but would hardly pass as realistic. "Henry Dunster" invests that historic old character with sentiments which do not ordinarily do him credit. "Tom's Story" is effectively told...
...read, "It is not lawful for a man who has the ball or the man opposed to him to pick out the ball with the hand." This did away with many of the contentions and bickerings which had characterized the play, but the game now was still a very crude affair compared with the game we play. "The scrimmages were," Mr. Camp goes on to say, "simply writhing masses of vigorous kickers, and no man escaped. The rushers were not scientific enough to carry the ball along with their feet, English fashion, while pushing their way ahead through the opponents...