Word: faces
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject represents a brilliantly lighted interior with a furnace, and a man standing before it, seen through a square dorway from a dark canal. At one side is the end of a gondola, above which a face is just visible peering out of a window...
...goal and skated down the rink, passing to Duncan just in time for him to score. A few minutes later Huntington by a very pretty piece of individual playing, skated the entire length of the ice, evaded the Princeton defence, and scored the second goal. Immediately after the face-off the University attack started again, and took the puck into a scrimmage in front of the Princeton goal, from which Duncan made the last score of the half. As time was called Huntington caged the puck again, but it was just too late to count...
...cage before he passed. A minute later Seamans carried the puck down the side of the rink and passed over in front of the goal to a scrimmage in which Trimble, the Columbia point, accidentally knocked the puck by Washburn for Harvard's second score. Almost immediately after the face-off Duncan again took the puck down the left side of the ice and passed across to Seamans, who scored. After about ten minutes, in which the play was evenly divided between the two goals, Duncan made the last score of the period on a pass from Pierce...
...means difficult to make speeches and deliver lectures on that subject, nor to hold conventions in its favor and applaud declarations in favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet with all kinds of difficulties; they are brought face to face with all kinds of selfish interests, and they are exposed also to the even greater danger of being honestly misunderstood by honest...
...peculiarity of both was the habit of delaying speech for an instant, while the mind was working and the telling sentence was framing itself for utterance--a brief interval during which the lips would gather slightly, as for a sort of smile, and the eyes and faces take on an indescribable expression of great charm. Then would burst forth one of those longer or shorter epigrammatic or aphoristic sayings which their friends all recall so well, full of meaning, full of kindliness and humor, never sarcastic, but always keen. Occasionally, too, they were full of fiery wrath. This James humor...