Word: loom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past years the futility of prophesying with a record book in one hand has been discovered. It is on the basis of Yale's better showing against Brown and Princeton that the Blue is favored to win, but to the unblamed observer the two teams trampled by other elevens loom as evenly matched as Harvard Yale teams ever...
...young New Jersey Baptist who took his B. A. at Rutgers only two years before the World War began, now sits fiscally enthroned over Germany as Agent General of Reparations. Beside 34-year-old Seymour Parker Gilbert such financiers as John Pierpont Morgan, 59, of 23 Wall Street, loom as fiscal gaffers. Yet there are among active U. S. fiscal titans men of a youthful middle age. For example, Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co., is 44. Mr. Dillon is of course the enfant terrible of Wall Street, "a comer," who has "come," a dollar-genius brilliant enough to negotiate...
...LITTLE LESS-Ashie Pharall-Appleton ($2.0 Valentine Forrester, a clear-eyed Bohemienne, finds herself attached to a post-war commission in hectic Vienna, where high living overcrusts the depths of misery and shillings loom large. Kit Mallory, cosmopolitan philanderer and frankly short on scruples, finds his languid way to her well guarded heart. How she chooses between this man, who lies neither to himself nor to her, and Paul Wychart, brotherly Virginian, makes an illuminating tale. Miss Pharall is plausible in her picture of a feminine heart both fine and philosophic. She has a knack for reproducing conversation, shunning mere...
Down in the cellar of the Luxembourg, Paris, loom the shapes of pictures temporarily stored there until the museum needs them again. Last week, another picture was added to that dim company. It was Whistler's Portrait of His Mother...
Andover tops the list of contesting schools, with 48 entries, while its traditional rival, Exeter, is entering 39 men. Other schools that loom large as interscholastic contenders are Worcester Academy, with 23 entries, Medford High School, with 22, and LaSalle Academy, from Providence, which is bringing a squad of 15 men to the meet...