Word: duffel
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Critics reached under their chairs, found the duffel-bags full of ready-to-wear words and opinions that they had tucked there surreptitiously at the first Toscanini concert, drew them out. They dared to comment on "occasional roughness," "lagging tempo," "indiscriminate climaxes and crescendos"; agreed that he had acquitted himself well, commended his "energy," his "enthusiasm," his "excellence." One of them took out "sensational," looked at it earnestly, put it back again...
...Saturday afternoon in the opening game of the season. In every inning but two, the fourth and the sixth, the Crimson players scored on their opponents, batting out a total of sixteen hits. In all departments of the game the University men showed splendid form, and Arthur Duffel, coach of the Northeastern nine and sporting editor of the Rosin Post, commenting on the contest said, "Harvard will have another championship team this year. The first game showed that the nine has hardly a weak spot...