Word: nessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long grey-blue knife gash amid the heathery Highlands of Northern Scotland is Loch Ness. Beside it rears the ruined pile of ancient Castle Urquhart. Nearest town of any size is Inverness, seven miles away. All around is the immemorial home of kelpies, bogles, Warlocks, White Ladies...
Whether Something is or is not in & around Loch Ness had by last week become almost a national issue in Great Britain. Dwellers around the lake began seeing Something several years ago, but they kept their mouths cannily shut until last August. Then all Britain began to hear stories of the monster that made Loch Ness its home. New witnesses came forward daily. People wrote letters...
Coaches were asked to send in any other changes in the rules that they might favor. It was suggested that the present "dead-ball" rule should be abolished. As an example of the inadequate ness of this rule. Bingham cited a play in the Harvard-Dartmouth game, when a Dartmouth player caught a kick-off, stumbled to one knee, and was stopped by the referee, with no Harvard man within 20 yards...
What strikes modern readers of Genji most surprisingly is its up-to-date-ness. The psychological novel is apparently no modern invention after all. Formal, slow-moving, ceremoniously polite, Lady Murasaki's court romance is peopled by very human beings (some 800 in all). Hero is Prince Genji, illegitimate son of an emperor, a Japanese Don Juan without Byronic weaknesses or vulgarities. By the end of the fourth volume his love-affairs and political maneuvers have landed him in exile. In a lapse of eight years between the fourth and fifth volumes Genji dies: the last two volumes tell...
...midst of a number of characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when...