Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a time before the glories of modern printing had penetrated to the lives of even the humblest inhabitants, when each man wrote in his own hand a short autobiography to be filed with others in his class. Like other matters in and around Cambridge when Harvard had an...
Mr. W. O. MeGeehan took occasion yesterday to note down in his own widely syndicated style his impressions of the action of the French Lawn Tennis association in reestablishing M. Forst as an amateur. Apparently this happy outcome was reached after the offender had handed over the tainted francs not...
Most obvious of the indications of the lack of sympathy between this author and the modern world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom...
There is a pallid beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from...
The Story. "But that is terrible!" says the first woman, watching the Grill couple stroll, "she was one of our own circle."