Word: likes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...incongruity of the masquerade of dialect words and phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep"; nor is it, strictly speaking, the "show" that brings beggars "astraddle of the guys what's got the dough." I question also whether the dialect is used quite consistently throughout. In any case, it seems regrettable that the phrase "bunched up" should occur twice in fourteen lines. E.E. Hunt...
...play as brilliantly, but her concentrated attack and ability to push the ball over the goal line when once within striking distance, was what brought Yale out of the contest victorious. It was a game in which eleven individuals played hard and well against a more perfectly working, machine-like team, equipped with an offense that was able to gain ten yards in three downs by means of straight football...
Cheer on cheer like vollied thunder...
Yesterday's football practice for the University squad was, like Monday's entirely secret. There was no scrimmage but the men were given a long, hard preliminary drill, consisting of the usual breaking through, punting, catching punts and tackling. In the signal practice, the new plays were run through and much attention was given to the signals themselves...
...present number of the Advocate is, like most numbers, rather uneven. The editorials, fortunate in finding suitable subjects, are free from desperation. Timely congratulations to Mr. Norton on the occasion of his approaching eightieth birthday are written with sincerity and dignity; and the advantages of human relations between teachers and pupils, though frequently discussed, can bear reiteration. Apropos of a modest forbearance in this second editorial to prove the point, it may be remarked that the benefits of class-room friendliness accrue equally to both parties...