Word: ly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather a spirit within him did, who signed the canvases "Leonardo da Vinci"-exotic decorative designs, Oriental arabesques of rich color and a draughtsmanship at once high- ly technical and naive. An impartial critic described the work as looking "like the work of the great master executed during an attack of de-lirium...
...years an ever graying, ever dwindling host has held annual "encampments" in various sections of the U. S. As surely as August rolled around, so sure ly have the veterans of more than three score battles?and now of three score years?assembled and somehow marched, in spite of old wounds and infirmities...
...five years that he has been in office. Dean Greenough has already firm- ly established a reputation as one of the really great deans in the history of the University. His greatest achievement is probably the humanisting of relations between the governing powers of the University and the student body. His "open door" policy has not only permitted but encouraged students to consult him and the assistant deans freely upon any subject...
...least, it all seemed to Kent Savaron, Hechtic mooncalf from Wisconsin. He rocketed into Chicago, impelled by a desire to write. Glutted with his boyhood, gorged with reading, he feasted immoderate- ly on the profuse externals of the city. As he fed, self-consciousness awoke and introspection tickled and whetted his emotional appetites. These he celebrated with loose living and brilliant adjectival bombinations, in print and conversation. As he became conscious of the Winkelbergs, their repulsiveness deepened his subjectivity into fiercer and fiercer hunger for experience, a hunger that consumed life and fed, most gruesomely, upon itself. When he married...
...Crimson Ribband, trim'ly ty'd behind...