Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide that of all books about the U.S. by visiting spitfires, they "like Dame Trollope best." Wrote Twain in one of the suppressed passages of his Life on the Mississippi...
...Maupassant's reputation among literary critics has steadily declined over the past 20 years, but his stories are still read by people who like tart, sharp character sketching, mildly risque situations and ingenious twist endings. Even critics who think his work contrived and superficial will mainly agree that no other writer save Chekhov has so enormously influenced the shape of the modern short story. De Maupassant's own life story, as told in Francis Steegmuller's breezy and readable biography, seems itself like one of his more mordant sketches-flashy, melodramatic and highly painful...
...Inexperience. Neither Duke Sedgwick nor Will Davis had over played guard before in a game, and Davis had never even scrimmaged at running guard. When injured Howie Houston came in to take over at left guard, he was hampered by a lack of speed and timing...
...excellent Dartmouth defense, about which Art Valpey said, "That is what beat us." On a technical level, it was a "stunted" defense, wherein the Green backerups charged right into the holes even before the play opened, mangling the blocking assignments and wreaking havoc on the slow-opening Crimson offense. An excellent set of defensive halfbacks and a good safety man permitted Tuss McLaughry to treat the traditional concept of line backing this cavalierly...
...Yardling defense, particularly, showed great improvement. The line played a noble game, so cramping the Exeter running game that the Red and Grey's only touchdown came on a series of short passes. Even these just squeezed out enough ground--there were two measurements for first downs in the touchdown drive...