Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another man of God, in like case, wrote: "When, three weeks ago, I was living through the first long Sunday . . . I read the letters of the New Testament which were written in prison. There is joy and power...
...Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (Ruston, La.) Senior Ann Holstead wrote an essay for her English class. Said Sophomore Varnelle Plastow: "It smells." Thereupon Miss Holstead, a Louisianan, challenged Miss Plastow, a Long Islander, to a duel. Time: the morning after Miss Holstead's graduation. Place: behind the stadium. Distance: ten paces. Weapons: chocolate pies. Result: Miss Plastow got plastered...
...25th Harvard class reunion, Massachusetts' long-toothed Governor Leverett Saltonstall rounded up the members of his famed junior-varsity crew,* took them for a spin on the Charles River (Saltonstall rowing...
...ring for 15 months. The other was 24-year-old Lou Nova of Alameda, Calif., an inexperienced second-rater. By the eighth round, Has-been Baer was staggering, half-blind, and choking from the blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling his hideously swollen cheek, kept pounding wildly at his wheezing body...
...eleventh round, the referee finally stopped the butchery, awarded a technical knockout to young Nova, who was in pretty bad shape himself. The 18,000 reputable U. S. citizens, sitting under the stars in Yankee Stadium, cheered long and loud. They thought it had been a good fight...