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...flush of victory it is perhaps easy to forget, for a moment, what lies ahead. Two successive defeats made most Harvard men anxious above all for victory over Princeton this year. But the Yale game is still to be played and Harvard will never forget that the Yale game is the last on the schedule. When November twenty-fourth arrives "there is almost no chance" as the Yale News remarks rather ironically "of Harvard's being indifferent". In the past Yale has not had to complain of Harvard indifference on the football field, and, in view of the records...
Jess Willard, huge anachronism of the ring, struck a blow for middle-aged men. The blow landed flush on the point of Floyd Johnson's jaw in the closing seconds of the eleventh round of their fight at the New York Yankee ball park. The force of Willard's fist lifted Johnson off his feet and he dropped like a dead man. He was unable to answer the bell for the twelfth round. Willard, 42 years old, had knocked out the best of the young heavyweights, a man young enough...
...purpose and the atmosphere of his work, it is no less necessary to examine his literary milieu, the books which have aroused his imagination and formed his taste. From this point of view, the Classics of Greece and Rome have been contemporary with every age. Even in the full flush of Romanticism, Shelley turns to Greece whose seal is set "on all the race of man inherits", and Words-worth can sigh with some wistfulness for a breath of Horatian freedom...
...means of getting her to rebound into his embrace, begins to fall in with his view of the situation. She dutifully forbids him access to her house, but only after the preliminary precaution of ascertaining his address. The curtain thereupon falls, and the houselights reveal the hot flush of embarrassment on the faces of the audience...
...Barrie, for example, might speak of Fitzgerald; yet the flash poems of Byron are deep philosophic treatises compared with Fitzgerald's outbursts. Not that every story should be expected to bear its moral or illumine its great Truth...Heaven for-fend!; but certainly something more than the surface flush of artificial fever is to be looked for, in one who pretends to such a reputation as does the author of the "Tales". In one way, it is true, Fitzgerald is not entirely to blame: he is essentially the product of his age--the "jazz age" if you will...