Word: loing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD DARTMOUTH England, g. g., Schneider Wemple, rfb. lfb., Wells Parker, lfb. rfb., Harvey Waters, rhb. lhb., Werner Robinson, chb. chb., Corrick Eaton, lhb. rhb., Seixas Schumacher, ro. lo., Gallagher Clos, ri. li., Orcutt Grover, ef. ef., Hitchcock Stork, lf. ri., Veres Robbins, lo. ro., Gilbert...
...piece together, from Author Anderson's meandering and sometimes subterranean narrative, the complete career of Hero Red. he apparently went to college for a while and was a good baseball player. Then he started to work in a mill in his home town, wished he had nerve enough lo get himself a girl. His only affair, too brief and onesided to be at all satisfactory, was with an older woman, the town librarian, who was momentarily attracted by his fresh callowness. Red wandered off to other Southern mill towns...
...front of their mouths to make sure that no gusts of breath come out with the sound, to sing into an open umbrella so that the sound of their own voices comes back to them. One old Italian teacher used to train his pupils on the syllables bee-bah-lo-nee exclusively. Methods and phobias outnumber teachers. Alda's teacher, the late great Mathilde Marchesi, who also taught Melba and Calve, would never permit a pupil of hers to have her hair washed...
...line decision in favor of Vines when he was playing von Cramm the next day annoyed the gallery, caused shouts of "Lo-carno!" It made no difference in the final result?3-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-3, for Vines. Dr. Daniel Prenn, who looks a little like Walter Hagen and plays tennis the way Hagen plays golf, with imperturbable determination, gave Shields his second beating in the last match of the series?...
...pooh-poohs social distinctions. Howard agrees but, as headwaiter to girl, he dares not undeceive her. They part. The benevolent King brings them together again in Leslie Howard's hotel dining-room where, as heiress to headwaiter, she snubs him unhappily until the headwaiter vanishes and discloses-lo! a man. The social inflections of the story are British but the ending is satisfactorily...