Word: former
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...descendants or by some soldier who has rendered good service to his country." As a final souvenir, McNulta had tucked inside his bottle a set of newspaper clippings which breathlessly detailed the "Grant boom," complete with Grant buttons and cheap portraits, that struck Chicago during the popular former President's visit. The clippings described how the ladies wore their new diamonds and court trains to "brilliant" receptions, and imaginative pickpockets plagued the crowds that swarmed to town to see the electric illuminations. Evidently McNulta agreed with the newspaper that said: "As the hours passed on, it became more...
...extraordinarily naturalistic dialogue. No one tells the right jokes, no one makes the right phone call, no one finishes a project before the next begins and ultimately, Weller reveals that the youth of the '60s have, in the interest of self, failed to spawn a new generation with their former vitality. Weller captured that spirit perfectly in his first hit, Moonchildren, about college students in the '60s. Loose Ends surpasses Moonchildren in scope and finesse...
When it moved into the heavier weights the Crimson's lack of depth showed. Wesleyan captain Scott Steele, a former New England Champion at 167-lbs., gave freshman Wes Carrion a tough time. Carrion fought a good battle, but his inexperience slowed him down, and Steele bulldozed over...
...These are the wildest waters in the world. It's called the graveyard of the Atlantic, and this is where they propose to start drilling without proper safeguards," Francis Sargent, former governor of Massachusetts, said to the crowd of about...
WHERE HAVE ALL the heroes gone? Our era's cynicism and suspicion have seen more and more former idols rudely picked off their pedestals as they fall victim to literary sharpshooters armed with innuendo and calumny. Self-annointed revisionists continue to issue one-sided tracts condemning JFK's affairs, Elvis's drug addiction, and Hemingway's latent homosexuality. To err may be human, but to forgive seems well beyond today's all-consuming passion to wallow in the filth of others--especially when that filth is a residue of the rich and renowned...