Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history writing is one which has gone through countless phases. There has been the tribal story handed from generation to generation by word of mouth or drawn on the walls of caves. Later came the sagas of the heros, more myth than fact. Some nations like the Jews have kept great records of their wanderings, but if remained for the last few centuries to make of history a science...
...charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye. They were tired also from the strain of playing before the hostile and unsportsmanlike crowd in Boston which threw garbage and bottles on the ice, hit the referee in the head with bread soaked in near-beer, and kept quiet when the visiting team scored a goal...
...lost the first game, 2-0. In the second game each team had a goal when Goalie Chabot of the Rangers was hit in the eye with a puck, taken to the hospital. Coach Lester Patrick, famed defense man in his day, put on the goalie's pads, kept goal for his team, stopped all rushes, was wildly cheered. In the overtime period Johnson passed to Boucher who whipped the puck into the Montreal goal, winning the game 2-1, with two games left to play...
...Rosenbach raised him a hundred. Mr. Maggs jumped another hundred. After ?1,000, Mr. Maggs tried to slow down the bidding, but Dr. Rosenbach went on raising him, ?100 or more at a time. When Dr. Rosenbach bid ?1,500, Mr. Maggs kept silent and the auctioneer announced that Dr. Rosenbach had bought a first edition copy of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, inscribed by the author to his friend, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, author of John Halifax, Gentleman. Then the auctioneer raised his hand and lowered his voice...
...know that he and his brother A. Rosenbach, who together make up the Rosenbach Co., have unlimited resources as well as an insatiable desire for more books; they were not surprised to learn last week that having purchased Alice, Dr. Rosenbach proceeded to pay ?10,500 for the diary kept by the Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon from 1629-81, and large prices for several other volumes. Whether he had an immediate purchaser in mind, or not, it was impossible to determine. A year ago people would have said that he was buying for Henry Edwards Huntington, rich California collector...