Word: likes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliot came up to disagree with him face to face. The attack, though not personally hostile, was energetic. 'I said to myself', he declared, 'the trumpet gives an uncertain sound.' The lecturer, in the nervous weariness that follows nervous effort, was not quite ready for a series of comments like that. 'Excuse me, Mr. Eliot,' he said, 'but this is a subject on which I know more than you.' The President's face showed no trace of resentment, for the excellent reason that there was none to show. He had heard a sincere and devoted man tell him a plain...
...Austin (after hesitation): 'I'll give it. I hate a lawyer like the devil...
Harvard's star half-miler of several years back, J. N. Watters, was quite naturally called "Soapy" ever since his Exeter days, and every man with a name like Rhodes might just as well be christened "Dusty" at birth by his parents. All freely given names are not so obvious as these two, however. Bill McGeehan, probably the dean of American nicknamers, has almost single-handed run what he calls the cauliflower industry into the ground with his nicknames and epithets. "Horizontal" Joe Beckett, Phil Scott, the Leaning Tower of London, Signor Campolo, the Gyrating Gyraffe of the Andes...
...unquestionably situations like this, and they aren't at all infrequent in the game today, that make football the most popular sport in America today. Any one who was lucky enough to be in the Brighton bowl last Saturday certainly won't deny that it deserves that position of honor and they will all be back this Saturday by way of verifying it. BY TIME...
...like poetry to hit the mark, but we do not like it to aim," he said, discussing the teaching office...