Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale and New Haven are always glad to receive visitors from Harvard; there is a sort of glamour in the atmosphere created by the arrival of crowds in holiday spirits. We like to be good hosts to you who are our guests,--indeed, in recent years, like truly good hosts, we have even been accustomed to feel extremely downcast at the time of your departure. Sometimes we feel that this discomfiture and sorrow of ours might be called carrying hospitality...
High praise, indeed Another instance, showing his speed and ability to size up a play, was when he appeared like a shot and smeared a forward pass that Ames was about to receive with an open field for a touchdown. There is every reason to believe he will turn himself loose in his last game for the Blue, which, as we said above, will make the Casey vs. Legore for sensations complete. Boston Traveler...
...modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind them the land spreads...
...Edward Abeles as Dr. Rokoro, though he has little acting to do in a physical way, wins us to him with his parrot-like, clipped English--by his primitive, direct philosophy...
...pipe to make a man. You can't expect to get an education out of a four-years' college course. You just get started. Keep at it all your life and you will get part of an education if you are among the successful. Don't build your character like a woman fixes a sewing machine--removing everything that should be left stationary and putting oil on the belt. I can tell your size by what you are over-coming. Striving for big things is what makes men like Abraham Lincoln...