Word: faintings
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...damningly faint praise accorded dead Benjamin Strong by the potent Journal may give Gates W. McGarrah pause. Some think he, now Acting Governor, will soon be confirmed as Governor...
...field's edges, towards the goals. From time to time they returned to their paddock and other ponies took their places on the hoof-tracked turf. When the game was over, the ponies returned to their stables hungry and tired. After eating well they slept, flicking their ears at faint sounds in the pungent darkness...
...only hint of the crusading spirit, it seemed to this reviewer, was struck in the two chapters dealing with student religion and religious organizations. Was there a faint flavor of propaganda in the assembling of the testimonials in those pages? We dare not say, since these dealt with much matter that is entirely foreign to the Harvard scene, and therefore fell upon the mind with a singular noise...
Recent efforts to tear apart the shrouds which have surrounded the political clubs hereabouts serve only to emphasise the trance in which most of these organizations repose throughout the college experience of most of the student body. Every four years the adrenalin of a presidential campaign causes faint stirrings in the Harvard body-politic which feed the hopes of those gathered about the bier and which may be the signal for rejoicing, accompanied by the beating of tomtoms. Invariably and unfortunately the patient after a few inconsequential stirrings relapses into his former harmlessness...
...young woman rose very pale from the baccarat table at Deauville Casino. She swayed and seemed about to faint, then her eyes fixed on a swarthy, paunchy Indian, His Highness the Aga Khan. As though impelled by hypnosis she took a step toward the Khan...