Word: draught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message was countersigned by President-emeritus T. A. D. Jones. Lampwick is the Blue's stellar performer with the Anglo-Saxon idiom. "We're just an eensty bit glad," confessed "Speed" Copeland, Crimson draught-kicking mentor...
Philip L. Kale's Aphrodite of the Sea Gulls, a large canvas and well hung, was possibly the most striking picture in the show, not for its originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's Dead Chestnut gave the tree as much character as a face. William M. Paxton had sent in three portraits, for one of which he got the Beck Gold Medal...
...great cost when the building was erected, but never used for lack of funds, is put into operation at once. Connections can easily be made with the Reading Room, if indeed they do not already, exist. Thus we can be assured of a regular supply of fresh air without draught, and consequently of a reading room which will increase rather than destroy the mental alacrity of its users. Those who desire to sleep will have in future to seek the cinema, which is much more admirably fitted for that form of inactivity anyway. Yours very truly, Varian...
...throat, "Well, gentlemen, we will hold this particular play in abeyance." During the interim a modest derbied spectator obliged with a few readings from the H.A.A. News, prefating his performance with a request that several of the northern portals be barricaded as there seemed to be a strong draught; that done, he pleaded for silence. The entertainment was never consummated, however, for the game resumed shortly. The Fine Arts enthusiast offered comments: "A delicate organization, that team, highly sensitive, nervous, and yet possessing a certain Renaissance delicacy which is quite charming, quite ..." He rumbled on, and not unit the final...
Lampy's sprightly jester grew tired the other night. His bells lost their occasional merry tinkle. His tongue refused to shape glowing, satirical, malicious phrases. Lampy laid himself down upon his not too smooth bed of humor, imbibed a long draught of sleeping powders, we presume, for nothing else could possibly soothe the torpid vapors of his mind. He pulled the too heavy coverlets of subdued intellect about his ears, and set the clock ticking backwards...