Word: hooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three hundred and seventy-five Wellesley seniors will be off and running at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow in the annual Hoop Race. The traditional May Day run for the altar will start at the top of the Tower Court Hill, and will end at the finish line...
Americans seem to have a consuming interest in snakes. They must be told repeatedly that there is no such thing as 1) a hoop snake, which is supposed to put its tail in its mouth and roll downhill when frightened, or 2) a milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah...
However, if he were "off" in practice, he also had trouble getting the ball through the hoop in competition. He became convinced that his poor shooting in the game was due to a mental feeling that he was just doing to have a poor game...
Leaden skies and a sodden downpour washed out Wellesley's annual hoop race yesterday. The downhill event was rescheduled for 7 a.m. tomorrow, weather permitting...
Sayward is one of those magnetic women who holds her family in an unbreakable hoop of love. She forgives Portius' drinking and wenching because she is awed by his education and believes in his essential goodness; she closes her eyes to the fact that little Rosa Tench is Portius' child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster...