Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winding up the season's gruelling practice upon their secret practice field behind their palatial Plympton Street clubhouse and training quarters, the CRIMSON Varsity nine announced itself ready for the annual descent to the minors to play ball with their funny rivals down the street, who, for want of a better have taken upon themselves the title of Lampoon...
...fire spread so fast that few stories of its origin jibed. But several witnesses clung to their story of the port rear engine racing and spouting sparks. These might have ignited hydrogen valved out during the descent. Airships usually valve gas in landing. The vents are on top and the gas is so light that it usually rises straight up. The Hindenburg was slightly nose down at the instant of the fire and still moving fairly fast. Conceivably a freak breeze might have combined with the slipstream to waft a whiff of gas into engine sparks...
...long interim between 1817 and the present, the art of clocution has declined far below the standard of men like Webster, Clay, Douglas, or Calhoun. In this descent toward mediocrity, the oratory prizes have stood out against the current like rocks in a stream, steadily maintaining their solid basis. They were washed over the blasts of rhetoric, by stultified, memorized arguments, but they remained fixed. Now, nurtured by Professor Packard's courses, and with the tremendous flowering of radio, which is based entirely on ear-appeal rather than the flourishing of arms, the true clocution which the prizes were founded...
...Zion Industries, Inc.) fell asleep onstage; the occasion on which someone forgot to roll the rock from Christ's tomb in the Resurrection scene; the equally painful moment when the seven-foot cloth used to lower Christ from the Cross was missing when it was time for the Descent. Last week's premiere, however, went off well enough, struck an audience of 1,600 as no less professional than the average U. S. show of its kind...
...Armenian rugman with a luxurious 40 foot carpet but once more Lampy wasn't at home. And then came the climax of the evening. Not a speech by a prominent graduate, but another kind of speaker. One equally raucous, one equally unintelligible, but one of only indirect Lampoon descent. Just an old-fashioned goose. Sibi by name...