Word: hithering
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...that Holy Cross were a mockery team of snow, standing before the sun of fair Harvard, to melt itself away in water-drops! Good Crimson, great Crimson, and yet not greatly good, and if its ability be sterling yet in Division I-AA, let it command an upset hither straight, that it may show Harvard what pride it has since it is bankrupt of the Ivy lead...
...house in the eastern part of the Yard, they made living there a burden. "The College Yard was a great scene for demonstrations and marches. Practically every day there was a march in the Yard; almost any day you would find a group of students marching up and down, hither and yon. I don't think he [Bok] wanted to live with it," says Minister in Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes, then a Divinity School student...
...soon find out!" lit the string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers survived...
...most memorable moments in the show was a third O'Neill inspiration, during the entrance of the female chorus. It is an entrance Gilbert wrote again and again: a troop of 19th-century teenyboppers--cheerful, bordering on birdbrained--appears, "gaily tripping, lightly skipping," "tripping hither, tripping hither," or, in this case, "climbing over rocky mountain, skipping rivulet and fountain." True to form, this batch of maidens comes merrily onstage, chirping away with nothing graver on their minds than their "fleeting leisure"--all except one. While her sisters hop and dance at the front of the stage, she lingers behind...
...evening's only resuscitative presence is Claudette Colbert. At 78, she seems to have discovered the elixir of agelessness. Her looks are unflawed and her low come-hither voice purrs with enchantment. The precision of Colbert's timing would make a watch blush. Her role is that of a hugely successful writer of mystery thrillers and the owner of $15 million worth of paintings. In one wall is a camouflaged walk-in vault that can snap to and be drained of oxygen in 17 seconds. Don't bet that it won't be used...