Word: low
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell's score came when an Eliot punt traveled low and fast into the arms of Norm Blotner, Ballboy backfield threat, who started fast, eluded the Elephant ends, and crossed the 25 yards between him and the goal line after an exhibition of twisting and reversing in which not a single Eliot man touched...
Chicago had loved Cardinal Mundelein ever since it gasped, one morning in 1916, to learn that, at the first public dinner given for him, an anarchist cook had poisoned the soup, laid most of the 300 guests low-but not the new Archbishop...
...system over to private operation for ten years. Responsible American Water Works & Electric Co., operator of some 80 other water plants, had offered to run the plant profitably for a portion or the savings it could make on operation. To Mayor Scholtz's committee, astounded by the low earnings under city management (2½%), flabbergasted by a helter-skelter rate structure (51½% of Louisville consumers pay too much, 30% too little), it sounded like a good idea...
Editors who give their magazines a fillip of "poetry" do so with a weather eye on the height of their own and their subscribers' brows. Low-brow verse gets published in low-brow magazines and highbrow verse in high-brow magazines. But whether high-or lowbrowed, the "poems" published in magazines all answer, in general, one description. Magazine-verse, like the magazines it appears in, is thoughtfully written to be lightly read. However well done, it makes no more than temporary sense to its readers-to whom it gives only a momentary breather from the real business of their...
...Robert P. Tristram Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet, his audience for being good listeners, poetry for being beneficent magic, and the world for being a wonderful world...