Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather paradoxical analogy, describing a football game in the language of integral equations. But whatever the wordology, there are some who are violently opposed to any idea of life after death; if these people thought there really was such a life, they would probably seek a pill with which they could commit eternal suicide. "If charnel houses and our graves do send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites...
...matter of fact, "Inheritors" does neither. The author, through interesting characterization and many well-known tricks of stage-craft, manages to hold the attention and tickle the mental pallet throughout its entire length. So that when he is through, the reader suddenly finds that he has swallowed a moral pill almost without knowing it. And therein lies the charm...
This afternoon at half past three o'clock there will occur an exhibition of agate spearing, of pill slamming and of bag purloining unequaled in the history of Mike, the laconic guardian of Soldiers Field. In short, the CRIMSON and Lampy will stage a baseball game on Soldiers Field...
...this broken-down Napoleon sits in his back yard, surrounded by as many private detectives as an Attorney General or a Pittsburgh millionaire. It must be a bitter pill for the great Poseur to have to pretend a demure shyness to tempt the photographers Lo, he used to treat Gott with condescension. But now he even bores the League of Nations. No one cares what becomes of him. He is de trop, passe...
There is a minority of undergraduates to whom the routine of study is a positive joy. But for the majority, studying remains a chore; something to be turned to as a last resort under the stress of compulsion. A thesis or examination is like a disagreeable pill which one avoids taking until the last moment, and then swallows with one gulp and forgets as soon as possible...