Word: marvell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will act as honorary pall bearers are Jeremiah Smith '92 of the Corporation, T. W. Slocum '90 of the Board of overseers, Dean C. N. Greenough '98, W. J. Bingham '16 of the Athletic Committee, H. F. Woodcock of Yale, G. R. Murray of Princeton, F. W. Marvel of Brown, E. K. Hall of the Football Rules Committee and Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75. Other honorary pall bearers will be Gilman Collamore '93, W. A. Harvey, Dr. R. L. Lee '02, Judge F. J. Macleod, Henry Pennypacker '88, Philip Stockton '96 and H. H. White...
...that dark lady of love cling together on a parapet above foam-spread rocks. The poet makes a marvel of their love, putting it beyond time and space, above life...
...preserves his life and propagates his kind in the face of hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes to hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel at the intrepidity of the photographers, and ponder how insolently the net prevails over the claw. The big scene shows a great herd of chang (elephants) being driven into a trap by fear of natives camouflaged as bushes...
...father, superintendent of a noble's estate, sees a frustrated dream realized when the frail six-year-old plays from memory, with never a lesson, an entire lengthy concerto. The child is taught at home, overworks to the verge of death but survives to take his virtuosity, the marvel of that countryside, to Vienna. Beethoven, old, deaf, impoverished, whose portrait presides over the Liszt piano at home, consecrates the spindly little acolyte with a kiss...
...Hagenlacher, very pale, began to click his white ivory ball against another white ivory ball and a red ivory ball. He made a run of 283, his best run of the evening. Hoppe could not keep the balls together as he could when he was a boy and the marvel of the country, but making long runs out of desperate, impossible shots he finished the match (begun two nights before) a winner...