Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the further exception of Walker and Captain Coady, the University squad is in good shape and ready to meet William and Mary when the Southern try to avenge last year's 14 to 7 defeat. Several players, nursing minor hurts, were given a rest yesterday; Chauncey, Goodwin and Gamache were on the sidelines, but will be in condition by Saturday. It is also expected that Daley, veteran guard, who has been under observation for appendicitis, will see action against the Southerners...
...Masonic Temple, stood drunkenly. As if enraged by such impertinence, the hurricane struck again." While the storm did come again with renewed force, it certainly left more than a lone building. Many buildings of sound construction, including the Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood Hills Hotel and many others suffered only minor injury, such as roofs blown off, glass broken, and ornamentations damaged...
...have been human beings (their author says he drew them from originals) but in this book they are seen as animated cash-registers-Daniel in his big bargain-sale Loop department store; Thane as the bellicose Black Bear of the wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual emerges from a type. The degeneracy of Daniel Pardway's issue-Gene into "a lout among gentleman, a gentleman among louts;" Bert into a floorwalker and window-dresser; Phoebe into a dreamy sadist, via sex-starvation; Freddie into a Princeton fop, proud wastrel...
...that type of school very rare as yet in which first the patrons and supporters, second, the teachers and officers of administration, and finally, the pupils or students are so related to each other that they share mutually in the conduct of all the major as well as the minor activities of the school." And later he continues, "In some way, by constitutional or by formal grant of power from the legal bodies, authority must be transferred to the resident academic community, if they are to enjoy that liberty which belongs to a democratic state or industry. Boards...
...less than six Adamses are listed on the program, and before the final curtain falls, another one has been added. All of them cover their roles adequately. For real realism, however, they are not in a class with two minor characters. One of these, Maggie, played by Beulah Bondi, in the role of the servant who has been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene...