Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pity of it, the awful pity that such a nice docile animal should have to die--poor Cornell, poor bear! But although Harvard has never lost such a treasure, it alas never had one to lose. Small wonder that Cornell won in 1915 for the Crimson team never had a pet of its own to frolic with through the dull afternoons in the Stadium. But could the Big Red Team triumph again without its oh so human mascot to guide...
Political Consequences. Opinions differed as to the immediate effect of the Warren controversy. Some held that Mr. Coolidge would lose in public esteem because he allowed the Senate to get the better of him, because he allowed it to be shown that he could not control the new Senate any better than he could its predecessor. Others believed that it would strengthen him to have antagonized the Senate, especially since the people would feel that the Senate had played politics, been hypercritical about Mr. Warren and entirely uncritical about Mr. Sargent. Others predicted that all breaches would be repaired...
...course, Mr. Arlen is much interested in the progress of his play. When I first met him on the dock, he handed over a small alligator suitcase. "There's May Fair," he said, "and the new fourth act of The Green Hat. Don't lose it on your life!" May Fair, his next book, is a continuation of These Charming People; but Arlen has not been contented merely to collect his magazine material. He went to the Riviera recently, shut himself up in a hotel room, and rewrote the sketches completely for the book. May Fair will be published this...
...just as much so. A candidate does exactly what scores of candidates have done before him, for he delivers his mind, body, and soul to eight weeks or more of conventional toil. If he is possessed of any personality or will-power, it does not take him long to lose it. After he has won his coveted honor, if it be a place on the "Lampoon," for instance, he is initiated in a conventional manner in the presence of all his conventional brothers. Now his heart swells with pride and he walks down Massachusetts avenue just as if he actually...
...College has become a stamping mill. Almost all men wear its stamp after graduation. Few of them roll about sufficiently, afterwards, to gain smoothness or polish or even to lose the narrow, confined shape it gives them...