Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recess enabled his fellows to set down their admiration for his single-handed fight against American Imperialism. They felt the prophetic verity of his warning of the train of troubles that "would follow our acquisition of the Philippines. They responded to the memory of the courage of the lone individual who faced the flaming patriotism of Congress and country in the grip of Spanish War victory frenzy, who faced it to the end and with the last ounce of the vestiges of his earthly energies...
...Another gentleman had yodeled. Carl Lohmann, secretary of the University, had sung Kipling's "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." And the Glee Club had rousingly performed such numbers as "The Pope" ("He leads a jolly life, jolly life . . ."); "Church in the Wildwood" ("No spot is so dear to my childhood"); "The Lone Fishball" and fine old "Tourelay" with its chorus: Tourelay, tourelay, With my fillaga desha, skinamaroosha, balderalda boom tadeay, Tourelay, tourelay, And the pride of the household is papa's babie. Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead. Alumni...
ENCORE THE LONE WOLF-Louis Joseph Vance-Lippincott ($2). The Lanyards, father & son, turned respectable, fight a marauding gang...
...bricks of Boston smile with a certain ruddy charm as the Vagabond strolls to church. He nods to acquaintances, and looks with a wistful hope for the sight of a lone green bud. In the church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his boot, with a feeling of wonder. Falling in with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul...
...same cage with 16 lions and five tigers, definitely expects, sooner or later, to be publicly eviscerated. Last year he was hospitalized for three weeks after a cat got behind him. But most of the casualties in his cage are internecine, the lions ganging together to maul a lone tiger. Beatty has lost 16 tigers this way, one lion. Except during the filming of The Big Cage when Lloyd's covered both him and his animals, Beatty has never paid a cent for life insurance. With a whip, a kitchen chair, a revolver loaded with blanks, he persuades...