Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...machines and in the tanks. The men first are given individual instructions by Coach Haines, and then have a final row in the tank through which is kept a continuous stream of water. Furthermore, the oars are perforated and these two arrangements make the work as nearly like the river as is possible under the present circumstances...
...Stanley also prepared at the Berkshire School, and like his brother played on the school team five years. He plays at coverpoint...
...February number of the Monthly does not loss in interest though it presents a surprising contrast to the "Pagan" issue of last month. The figures and sentiments of antiquity no longer flit through its pages; they are replaced by comparatively modern and sordid actualities; like the U. S. Foreign Policy, the "Movie" and the Theatre and the Harvard Regiment. The prevailing note of the number is non-fictional; indeed, the only serious criticism that can be brought against the Monthly of 1916 is the absence of anything particularly creative in the realm of the short story...
...sense of atmosphere. Mr. Burrows' article on our foreign policy is youthful and sincere, and (so far as it goes) arrestingly written. We prefer Mr. C. G. Paulding's short editorial on the late General Huerta to his longer article. Brief, bitter, and to the point, it reveals, like so much of the writer's other work, a personality which it were far better to agree with comfortably than combat. The only story in the issue--Mr. Dos Passos' "Cardinal's Grapes"--is a light trifle as the author intends it to be. If the latter added more humor...
William Hodge has come to Boston in his first new play for ten years, "Fixing Sister," at the Majestic. In some respects this play is like those former familiar vehicles of Mr. Hodge, full of quiet humor and Yankee wit, and again the hero is a "man from home," shrewd, drawling, and lovable. This time, however, he is in different surroundings, for he has chosen to place himself, not in a little village, but in the midst of the society life of New York...