Word: interprets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the possible exception of the give-no-quarter extroverts from the Service academies, the Large Red collection representing Cornell plays the roughest, collision type of ball in the Eastern League. Middle Atlantic referees traditionally interpret the rules more loosely than the New England stripe, which probably counts as a disadvantage for the visiting Crimson, conditioned to stricter officiating...
...usually worthless trying to interpret an audience's reactions and using that interpretation as a criterion by which to judge the play. But last night, when roars of laughter greeted each stupid blunder made by the generals and the visiting congressmen, it leaves some doubt as to whether Mr. Haines has succeeded in making his point. Stupidity is laughable in chimney-sweeps and char-women, but it becomes something else when found among men with the whip in their hands...
...which she did not consider very good, and as I had never been able to pretend that I knew anything about food, I had to be very humble about her criticisms . . . I was very grateful when our daughter joined our household after her husband went overseas, because she could interpret what had then become Franklin's whims far better than I could...
...respects. Wrote he: "A great lady died the other day-a lady who had caused me much happiness-and much pain. She was my ex-mother-in-law, Eleanor Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints of a speech largely taken from Cissie's diatribes...
Critics & Omelets. He is fussy about the way his music is played, too. Stravinsky annotates his scores with such precise directions that he feels there is no excuse for conductors to "interpret" him: "I am not literature. I don't have to be interpreted...