Word: got
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First, that when writers give us such detailed information as to the character and clientele of these resorts as Mr. La Farge has done, they tell us how they got it. I should be most reluctant to believe that Mr. La Farge's serious and enlightening criticism was based on hearsay...
...outset, of a good, workmanlike novel to draw upon. It is not a sin against art to write a romance or construct a play upon the impossible physical resemblance of two men. Only you must get away with it. A certain William Shakespeare, as Professor Baker would say, "got away with it," to a remarkable degree in "Twelfth Night," and so did Anthony Hope in that classic melodrama, "The Prisoner of Zenda." And so did Mrs. Thurston, the original author of "The Masquerader." But Mr. Booth refused to concede all the honors to his feminine collaborator. So he brings...
...runner, established a lead which the 1920 men gradually increased until near the end of the race, when E. A. Teschner '17 and H. W. Minot '17 cut down the Freshmen's 40-yard lead. W. Willcox '17 and B. S. Blanchard '20, anchor men on their respective teams, got away on equal terms, but Willcox won by three yards...
...finish. W. Willcox '17 was nosed out by a few yards. Captain E. A. Teschner '17 and Terrell of Princeton led off and finished even. Eddy won ten yards from A. E. Rowse '18, which H. W. Minot '17 made up, and Willcox and Moore, the anchor man, got away on even terms. Moore, however, led by a few yards at the tape...
There is nothing so bad for a country as war and what follows it. We learned that lesson in the Civil War. The enemy got ahead of us there. Do not let us repeat the mistake...