Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HARD...
Napoleon's Barber. Those who know Author Arthur Caesar, on whose drama this picture is :based, say he is a radical and a pacifist, a definition which makes it hard to understand why Mr. Caesar should have made Napoleon appear a jolly general whose devotion to his country is rivalled only by his love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp...
...short stick rounded at one end and a hard rubber ball, together with the necessary ice, were all the implements for the first games of "ice polo", as the sport was known in Cambridge in 1896. There were no limits to the rink and so no player could be off side, and the games-generally developed into cross-country chases in which the man with the best wind kept ahead of his foe and scored goals...
...under the leadership of George Jenkins, stellar goal-guard, take Harvard twice in succession in the series. The 1924 mix-ups went in straight games, 3-0 and 6-1, but Harvard forced the next to three games. Since that time six successive games have gone to Harvard, all hard-fought, but decisive...
...hard honesties of Paul Cézanne. Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention. Fearing dishonesty he painted, repainted, erased everything and painted again...