Word: displays
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...opponents," dominated play throughout most of the game and capitalized on numerous Crimson mistakes. A large crowd, enhanced by the youth and beauty of Princeton's spring weekend, watched the Crimson fumble away the ball again and again, as the three quarter line put on its weakest display of the year...
...shows Gilbert at close to his worst. Behind the gruff whiskers, fat belly, and sharp tongue there lurked a small, narrow, smug, Philistine, and thoroughly reactionary mind, and a nagging weakness for the most squalidly dull-thud variety of pun. Both these latter qualities are prominently on display in Princess Ida. Moreover, some mad infatuation (something, perhaps, to do with the Tennyson poem of which Ida is a parody) led him to cast the thing in blank verse, of the sort Shaw must have had in mind when he said that blank verse was easier to write than prose...
Although severely injured, Bull refused to bow out and received a standing ovation from the crowd at the end of the game for his display of pluck. "Pluck is my middle name," stated Bull after the contest...
...shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem to be suspended in mid-Atlantic, uncertain whether...
Unfortunately, the contest was also distinguished in a different and uglier way. It is necessary to say here that The Lampoon put on a brutish display of calculated poor sportsmanship. Even the 'Poon's most hardened critics were appalled at her vicious effort to avoid defeat...