Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spasmodic spurts he tells the intimate story of a sensitive boy struggling to become a writer in the face of physical frailty and parental distrust, in mean towns built beside buffalo wallows. Beneath the burden runs a hysterically bitter ground-bass-a dirge for everything Puritan-and snarling discords to the effect that constipation was the pioneers' curse; that their children were rickety, their politics poltroonish, their women spavined, their teeth acid, their minds (including the author's) stunted and deranged, all because they failed to raise cabbages and take lime into their systems...
...would have liked to get twice as many an twice the price, if necessary. Thousands will swarm from the byways and hedges to see two and twenty players fight over a little leather ball. They will expect great things. A single mistake may decide the game. One error may mean defeat. But what of it, our friend across the water asks. There is yet some joy in life. What remains of life does not at once look bleak and dreary to an English 'varsity man if he happens to drop a ball. Nor does he feel eternally disgraced...
...back who will start, is rated as the best ball carrier the visitors have. The appointment of MacPhail as acting captain instead of the ex-captain-elect, Dooley, causes much speculation. As Black is Dartmouth's other punter it is thought that his substitution and McPhail's appointment may mean that Dooley, star kicker and passer, will be relegated to the sidelines. In this eventuality either Harris or MacPhail will call the signals, with McAvoy, rated as "brilliant" by Harvard scouts, going in at halfback...
...Dover, Ohio, last week, four tipplers received a "water-cure" sentence of ten days from Mayor Groh; a gallon must be imbibed on each day; failure as to quantity will mean an extra...
When asked if tennis players did not have to be educated and intellectual to a certain degree to become good at the game, Mlle. Lenglen replied quickly, "You mean that is why college men play so well. No, you have to be clever in tennis, but not intellectual. College men are good players because they have more time for tennis than other people, not because they are more clever." She smiled piquantly...