Word: goodness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good team even without Alton Marsters, Dartmouth made the first touchdown. Then Cornell picked up a couple arid kicked the goals. Dartmouth got another but was still behind. In the last 60 seconds of the week's most exciting game, the Dartmouth backs plugged out a touchdown the way they do in football movies. Dartmouth 18, Cornell...
...Caravan usually has something very good in it: this time it is a long poem by Phelps Putnam, The Daughters of the Sun, too long to quote, too good to quote from. Of the newcomers, William Rollins Jr.'s short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories...
...years ago collectors of early American glass, walking sticks, coffee strainers and teething rings fell upon the Currier & Ives prints. They began to boost their value as records of an artless age, some even insisting upon their intrinsic value as works of art. Prices mounted until now a "good" Currier & Ives print is worth about as much as a Chevrolet and rare ones can be sold to lift mortgages from old farmhouses...
There is so much that is good about the intense activities of the football field that the unfortunate and sometimes really sad events which result from this greatest of American games cut into the consciousness with especial keeness. The highly satisfactory performance of the football team last Saturday serves only to put a sharper edge to the regret that one of the outstanding members of that team should have met with grave injury while on the field...
...stubborn fact some of the most thoroughly joyous, some of the most intensely vital experiences of living are inevitably interwoven with risk. One of Harvard's players has added his name to the fortunately small, but always unhappily large percentage of men who have derived more harm than good from participation in a fine game. It only remains to extend to Victor Harding and his family a deep sympathy that they have been made to suffer by a serious football injury...