Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GOOSE HANGS HIGH-The younger generation cordially given a chance to redeem themselves and extend a little benevolent paternalism to their elders...
...Towne has hard work to redeem himself from a rather poor start, from the point of view of the average reader. The introduction is too much after the style of the well-known Sir Walter Scott to excite any wild applause over the first hundred pages, but things eventually do begin to happen. The heroine is presented, some very vividly, phrased little incidents take place, and by the time the last chapter is reached, the characters are just tearing through the years...
...University wrestling team will have a chance to redeem itself after the recent disastrous Yale meet when it wrestles in the New England Intercollegiate Championship Meet at Providence tonight. Two University teams will face Brown and M. I. T. in the semi-final bouts. Dartmouth has withdrawn from the meet but the official title of Intercollegiate Champions of New England will go to the team that wins the first team contests, while a cup will be awarded to the substitute team that comes...
When questioned as to the truth of the charge that some sectionmen take these postals to the office and redeem the, Mr. Stevens was not willing to say that the habit was prevelant, although he did admit that it had been done in few cases...
When a concerto heard at the hands of a pianist of the skill and artistry of Harold Bauer, still remains unconvincing, uninteresting, and long-winded, there is something the matter. Eloquence on Mr. Bauer's part, heroic effort by Mr. Monteux, nothing could redeem this very dry concerto except a very few passages in the less uninteresting last movement. If there is any meaning to this work, as there may be, since an artist of Mr. Bauer' rank sees fit to play it, we are unable to discover...