Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after two strenuous overtime periods, while the Crimson won a hard fought overtime game with the Tigers by a 2 to 1 score. But both the teams which meet today have shown a great amount of fight and spirit and in spite of the way the odds seem to lean, the result should be in doubt until the end of the game...
...many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch-Roger Wethered, Sir Ernest Holderness, Cyril J. H. Tolley. The first is lean, composed, frosty. His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt. The second, gloomy, nervous, plays with the air of a martyr being tortured for his faith, has twice won the amateur championship. The immense shoulders, the full-moon face, the stocky legs of the third...
...showed Congress favorably inclined to railroad mergers (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), three Eastern systems-N. Y. Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Pennsylvania-sat down and attempted to arrange just how they would absorb the rest of the roads in their territory. Unfortunately, everybody wanted the fat and nobody the lean roads. Meanwhile, the Van Sweringens quietly annexed the Nickel Plate, C. & O., Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley (TIME, Aug. 11, 18, April 6), and became a fourth party at the prospective feast. Now, while the four cannot agree on details of distributing small roads among them, a fifth would...
...Ring Lardner-Scribner ($2.00). Shakespeare has often been called, doubtless with complimentary intention, "the myriad-minded." If to be myriad-minded means to have an intellect which is supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind it. In his new book...
...long, lean, smiling chorus girl who is called W. R. Wister '27, and who is the son of Owen Wister, who wrote the first of the Pudding's musical comedies, "Dido and Aeneas". Since then Mr. Wister has written a number of other things, but none of more moment...