Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teams for a few minutes' hard work. Flower and Bond were in the backfield of team B, with S. Burnham '19, and did some good work on the offence in a short practice against team C. The general tone of the day's work was light and quiet, with the men of letting the men start the week's work gradually in preparation for the hard game Brown is expected to give the university this week, when the Brunonians come to Cambridge flushed with their 21 to 6 victory over Yale last Saturday...
...When we first entered the long communication-trench, things seemed pretty quiet. Only a shot and an explosion at long intervals could be heard. We had travelled along the communication trench about half an hour, and were about to enter our shelters in the second line trenches when not far away came two fairly loud bomb explosions in quick succession. Then the earth seemed all of a sudden to reel. There was a commotion like the bursting of a volcano. Two hundred yards off, above the trees, a column of huge rocks, lumps of earth, tree-trunks and probably numerous...
...game evidently consisted chiefly in studying the wiles of Ulysses. When the CRIMSON nine appeared on Soldiers Field, it found an opposing aggregation consisting chiefly of hired thugs, with a few wise boys interspersed to give the outrageous affair an air of sanctity. Rather than forego an afternoon of quiet sport, the journalists condescended to play a few innings with their nondescript antagonists. But when more thugs appeared on the scene in the fifth inning, the game was protested. The protest was carried to the highest authority, the manager of the CRIMSON team, who allowed it. The game is therefore...
Believing, with the Lord's Day League, that one day a week should be devoted to absolute rest and quiet, the CRIMSON ball team has set aside today for the purpose, and has accordingly scheduled a contest with the Phi Beta Kappa nine for this afternoon. Weary with intellectual toil, the scholars will creep to Soldiers Field in time to meet the journalistic juggernaut at about 3.30 o'clock. Partisans of the superlative students say that they will show a lot of inside baseball; but this does not discourage the CRIMSON. Past experience shows that Phi Beta Kappa baseball...
Miss Allen was excellent as the quiet, simple-minded heroine; Mr. Roope as her changeable lover acted skilfully in a part none too clearly drawn; Miss May and Mr. Hammond were spirited and sufficiently ultra-modern...