Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the twenties the Advocate held its sway in undergraduate literature, with such men as T.S. Eliot and Conrad Aiken figuring notably in its ranks. In the thirties, however, as the Advocate's concerns became increasingly political, there was another burst of dissension, and Lincoln Kirstein formed Hound and Horn, a short-lived critical review. Another magazine, The Critic, succumbed in 1934, when it voted to merge with the Advocate...
...split was wide open. Recto lashed back: "I shall hound him from barrio to barrio...
Then, out of nowhere came the 39-ft. ketch Staghound. She had been unreported and counted out of the running for days. But race officials had forgotten that in 1953, when she won the race, Stag-hound's owner and skipper, Los Angeles' Ira P. Fulmor, kept radio silence as he searched for favorable winds. Now Fulmor and his navigator, Robert T. Leary, were pulling the same stunt. When they broke silence they were less than 200 miles off Diamond Head, with more than enough of their 98-hour handicap left to take top honors. The times were...
...rotter who would water his children's milk to cut down on his overhead. Why should a dog with whom I have nothing in common . . . be given the right to bound over me and lick my face? Why should I walk along a darkened street with an unleashed hound sniffing around my ankles as if I were a mobile hydrant...
...fell over orchidaceous ("Nero Wolfe was an orchidaceous hound," prompted Pronouncer Alleman), and a girl collapsed over the almost impossible chiastolite. On word No. 501, Sandra faced a crisis. Is vicinage spelled ige or age? Taking a deep breath, Sandra chose the "a," and survived...