Word: outer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem is no longer that of finding the Human Magnet but rather of cultivating a wilful pliability to Suggestion in the population. This may turn out to be an insurmountable difficulty for New Englanders who are proverbially negativistic and resistant to any outer voice, whether it be the Good, the True, or the Beautiful...
...could not get around or between Ellison and Clark. Several times he almost got a clear shot at the net, but always at the last moment the drive was spoiled. Vaughan also played a fine game for Yale, and his neat passes to Frey took the puck past the outer defense three or four times. Morrill, however, blocked the work of this combination except once in the last period, when Vaughan came in fast and knocked in the rebound of Frey's shot...
Chicago's "outer drive" (speedway over reclaimed lake-swamp land from North Side to South Side) will be named for Viking Leif (pronounced Life) Ericsson. Reason: he may have discovered America before Columbus; Columbus is now commonplace as thoroughfare designation; local Norwegians were active...
Said the Chicago Tribune: "Everybody speaks of it as the Outer drive. That is a good name because it is a natural one and a descriptive one. The best place names in cities are the natural ones. . . . We cite the Lake Shore drive, Broadway, the Boston Common. These names are right. They do not offend by disproportion. They come naturally to the tongue. They have character. They belong to the thing. Why strain for a better name when the Outer drive is so certain the right...
...personal spats seldom so openly revealed, will cause some shrugging of shoulders, some sharper comment. Those who question the taste of such autobiography forget, possibly, that the world left him poor while he was creating some of its richest musical treasure; that publishers kept him whistling in the outer offices with immortal compositions grasped in numb fingers; that critics derided when first he wore his heart on his sleeve; that such experiences leave strange marks on sensitive natures...