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Harvard's varsity basketball team plays at Cornell tonight and will have to hustle to win, but after Thursday's narrow loss to powerhouse Columbia, the players must be forgiven if they are already looking forward to next Friday's rematch with the Lions...
scarcely could he have have ever forgiven himself...
...where he grew up. He wore short pants until he was twelve, then went downtown on the streetcar with his mother to get his first pair of knickers. Automobiles were still symbols of success; a dad with an Apperson 8 or a Pierce-Arrow or a Hupmobile was forgiven if he showed off a bit by taking the family for a Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents and RCA Radiolas only began to climb when magazine ads of the '20s proclaimed that "the thrill of radio is no longer in getting 50 stations in a night...
...short, if sex had been the entire issue, Effie might have forgiven Ruskin his glaring sin of omission and settled down as just another glum Victorian helpmeet. But Ruskin, though a recognized genius and cultural lion, hated to go to parties (which Effie loved), could not bear to be disturbed at his work (Effie seemed to regard interruption as a woman's prerogative), and always said "I" instead of "we" when talking of their plans for anything. Worse, he plainly preferred his parents' company to her own. "All their conversation," she wrote, acidly describing an evening with...
...have no forgiven sins to repress...