Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS year as well as last saw literary representations of nineteenth century decades at a rate almost epidemic. Don Marquis wrote of the adventurous business enterprises of the seventies. "The Mauve Decade" summed up, falsely, some aver, the social life of the nineties, and Mark Sullivan with the "Turn of the Century" said his say on the politics and public fashions of those days. The present book has a rather more restricted field than any of these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation...
...trial today the crew broke with a racing start of 38 strokes to the minute, soon falling to a 32 beat, which held until the three mile mark was reached. Here the stroke mounted to 35. During the last few-yards the beat was lowered to 29. The men were is good condition to paddle back to the boat-house, but Coach E. J. Brown '96 took no chances with the inclement weather, and sent his charges back in the launch...
...three days he was wracked, wrecked, frantic with insidious syncopation. Not until he repeated the verses to a friend was he released from torture. The friend learned the jingles quickly, eagerly?and went quite as mad as Mark Twain had been...
Only by having him recite and transfer the jingles to "the poor, unthinking students" of a university did Mark Twain save his friend (he said) from the asylum...
...University crew was paced by the second eight for only a mile, the Seconds picking up the first eight at the mile and a half mark, then dropping out at the two and a half mile stake...