Word: homed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggests the story of the American who had been constantly corrected in his pronunciation of Eng- lish proper names, until his patience was well-nigh exhausted: his English friend happening to refer to Niagara Falls, the American was prompt to correct him. "No, no," he said, "at home we pronounce it Niffles...
Coach Rockne's phlebitis (congested legs) grew worse and kept him at home, but the 34 members of his big squad switched places in the game as if he had been there, scored three touchdowns in the second period, another in the third, to bag Northwestern's Wildcats...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
...that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went home, spoke enthusiastically of its sweetness and its delicacy. Soon after four lutes were ordered for the Aguilar household and the four children, Ezequiel, Pepe, Paco and Elisa, were set to practising...
Those are the advantages of a competition a candidate is apt to write home about to explain away possible grade shrinkage While they are perfectly true they do not tell the story. For such prosate benefits make no mention of the thrill of appearing in print, of the satisfaction of playing a humble part in the molding of undergraduate opinion, and of the lasting pleasure of companionship while working for a common...