Word: hisses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...While thus engaged "Trun-un-ng-tsss" --a black puff of smoke appeared behind my tail and I had the impression of having a piece of iron hiss by. "Must have got my range, first shot!" I surmised, and making a steep bank, pique'd heavily. "There, I've lost them now!" The whole art of avoiding shells is to pay no attention till they get your range, and then dodge away, change altitude and generally avoid going in a straight line. In point of fact, I could see bunches of exploding shells up over my right shoulder...
...home-made performances, they must overcome the prejudice against unpaid good acting. Those who scoff at the Dramatic Club, should give it a chance tomorrow night to prove what it can do. Those who came to hiss, will remain to applaud...
Apropos of the communication in your Saturday edition, our friend Quintus Flaccus would be tempted to remark:--"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus". Indeed the whole affair, from the mingled applause and that combination of 'hiss' and 'sneer' which so worries our friend, to the newspaper article, the letter and the now current argument pro and con, smacks of hyperbole...
...meeting. Doubtless this particular news item, for obvious reasons, will be copied by various newspapers in different parts of the country and read by thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans with mingled feelings of disapproval, of shame, and of regret,--regret that Harvard College could stoop so low as to hiss her most distinguished alumnus...
...country, reflect no small honor upon the College where he received his training and of which he is at this present moment an official. Is there a Harvard man so dead to a sense of college pride, if nothing else, as to have only a sneer and a hiss for such an alumnus? Harvard's hiss cannot hurt Mr. Roosevelt, but it can and will hurt Harvard in the judgment and the regard of the American people. I am appealing to the College to assert its better self against those whose conduct is bringing reproach upon it. J. L. MOORE...