Word: resists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King George to create a batch of peers sufficient to carry the bill. Even such confirmed Tories as the late Lord Minto frowned on the latter alternative, but Lord Milner stuck to his guns and advised the House to resist to the end. It did not, and he was beaten...
...resist a fellow creature...
...gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness of style mark each story in turn. I cannot think any of the work, however, able as it is, distinguished by an authentic and native gift...
Tides of Passion. When a young man is so constructed that women simply cannot resist his "Do you love me?" and when such a youth is a traveling man, there are bound to be complications. This young man, traveling the world over, left a trail of bleached and broken hearts behind him. Finally, he is washed up on a rocky island and the real struggle begins. One of the two women has a child by him and the other one hasn't. Finally he dies and the women drown their loneliness in mutual lamentations. One of the more unfortunate...
...encounters of the trip. Georgetown, on Friday, got, away to a fast start and overwhelmed the Crimson by 15 to 3. The pitching situation in this game was difficult as neither Spalding nor Toulmin could work and the responsibility was given to Andrews and Cordingley, who seemed unable to resist the Georgetown onslaught. The last game with Columbia was probably the best of the trip although the Blue eked out a 7 to 6 win in the final inning by overcoming a two run Harvard lead...