Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also may reflect the influence of prejudice. For example Barrett, Harvard's captain, scarcely deserves his position on the first team on the basis of his play so far this season. But Barrett proved his caliber under heavy fire all last year when responsibility weighed on his shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really be at its full strength refuses to be downed. And then again in such cases as the second team fullback berth, few would argue that the team would be a great deal weaker with Holy Cross's stalwart...
...this gentleman is) offered the Harvard Athletic Association $350,000 for an athletic building with the proviso that the University raise the rest of the funds necessary for its completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate swimming pool. The conditions were that work on this plant should start within one year of February 18, 1928, and be finished within two years of that date. The plot...
...Smallman A Cappella Choir, which rendered a program at Jordan Hall Sunday, is native to the State of California, and, to emphasize this fact, is dressed in bright costumes of Spanish origin, which are not particularly appropriate to the occasion or the program. With a few changes to a less jarring and more dignified color scheme this element of the entertainment could be made an organic and pleasing part of the performance...
...scale swim the goldfish. There are all types and varieties: cheap, ten cent fish, which do little else than swim lazily about in bowls; and expensive, showy, magnificent, beautifully plumed aquatic residents, which spend their time exhibiting class and breeding. Yet all are subject to more or less the same treatment at one time or another, whether they serve as the unsuspecting targets for the gibes of a cruel audience, or are just forgotten for a week by their feeders...
Probably Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran carry off the honors over the other ladies of the cast, because they have more opportunity to be funny than the rest have to act. Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Marion Davies are all acceptable in less distinctive parts. Laurel and Hardy present a little highgrade slapstick, and Buster Keaton's burlesque of the exquisite jewel dance that precedes him, outdoes them...