Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a bit too early to judge by concrete results, but if the Headmaster's report is to be credited, Exeter has apparently found the happy medium between the hickory and sugar-lump theories of secondary education. The Harkness Plan is by no means a new one, but it gains real significance through the high standing of the school which has adopted it and the intelligence with which, to all appearances, it is being executed...
...this cheer was for morale, to cheer up the public. For several years doctors have tried to scare everyone with a new, unaccountable lump on his body into running for medical examination. That was all very well, until psychiatrists began to complain that they were being overworked and underpaid by daffy cancer-phobes. It seemed wise to right-face concerning cancer, sound an encouraging clarion...
Smilin' Through (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an old-fashioned cinema, gentle, lachrymose and romantic, calculated to make the throat of any susceptible cinemaddict like that of a giraffe swallowing oranges. The first lump occurs when John Carteret (Leslie Howard) is found moping, at the turn of the century, in his handsome English garden. Disconsolate about a dead fiancee, he is reluctant to console himself by becoming foster-father to her orphaned niece Kathleen. The niece grows up into Norma Shearer and falls in love with a young American (Fredric March) who has come to England to enlist...
...connection with Life back to the 14th hole of a sectional golf tournament played at St. Augustine, Fla. in 1925. The man he was playing against hooked his shot, waved his club angrily. The next thing Mr. Evans knew he was lying on the fairway with a painful lump rapidly rising on his forehead. The club-waver was curly-haired Clair Maxwell. Life's president. A year later Mr. Evans quit his sportwriting job and was working for his assailant. He became Life's managing editor, is still its cinema critic...
...makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia may lose after all until W. C. Fields begins lifting weights. He loses his temper while doing so. This causes him to raise a 1,000 Ib. lump which no one else can budge and hurl it so far that in addition to the first prize for lifting weights, he gets first prize in the shot-put. Most able runner in Klopstokia is a ratty major-domo (Andy Clyde). He practices, on the way to the games...