Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vain, till a most filthy and ugly woman said she would save King Arthur, if Gawain would wed her. The tale says she was the ugliest woman alive, yet Gawain readily offered to marry her. So she told Arthur that women liked sovereignty most. Thus Arthur escaped, but poor Gawain found an arrogant mistress in his wife. At last, however, she bade him choose between having her beautiful by day and ugly by night, or the reverse. When he gave her own way she was released from her cruel enchantment and became a beautiful creature, who ever remained his loving...
...interesting, but from the point of view of a Harvard supporter it was most encouraging, owing to the way in which our men hit the ball and ran bases. Nineteen hits with a total of twenty-nine bases in six innings is pretty good batting, even off as poor a pitcher as Smith, and yesterday the hits came in at just the right time, and eleven out of the fourteen runs were earned. In the third inning three hits with a total of six, and two steals brought in three earned runs, while in the fourth, eight with a total...
Every one, however, will be delighted by the story of "A Poor Millionaire," by Mary L. Adams, as charming a character sketch as one often sees...
...side from scoring except in the fifth inning, when he showed his only weakness by giving Bliss a base on balls. Ramsdell's error advanced the runner to second, Murphy's single brought him to third, and Young forced him home by sending Bowers to first on four poor balls. After that he showed better control of the ball and pitched brilliantly striking out two of Yale's best basmen when every base was occupied. Princeton failed to get a man past first till the fifth, when Ramsdell secured a base on balls, took second on a wild pitch...
...individual scores of the Harvard team were Lawton 14, Sargent 18, Pike 22, Gould 22, Mackay 22. Lawton's poor score is somewhat excusable as he broke his gun in the beginning of the match...