Word: rhythmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used to be Mr. Cabell's aim and custom to "write perfectly of beautiful happenings." He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit. Either that, or things in Poictesme†are working out to natural conclusions and Mr. Cabell, as a determined realist, reports them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will...
...story about the Yale-Harvard boat-race that began on the front page of the Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon the deepening shadow . . .") set a record. As a noun and in adjectival form, he used the word "rhythm" sixteen times, as follows: Spurts Wail Before Elis Rhythmic Beat . . . the flawless rhythm of Ed Leader. . . Yale's rhythmic beat. . . . blessed with the finer rhythm and ... It was all rhythm . . . Rhythm that Milton and Byron might have . . . lesson in rhythm . . . that matchless-, Yale's magi...
Scandinavia, To a rhythm deliriously syncopated, Norwegians, Swedes and Danes have learned to shout, "Come as you are!" Introduced at Stockholm by a hatted and coated comedian who invites a bevy of chemise-clad girls to "Come as you are!" it kindled the Norse fancy, has become a quite unsuggestive equivalent for "Hail! Hail! The gang's all here...
Interest in shot putting among collegians is traceable, I believe, to the desire for football men to take up weight events for off-season training. It is natural that they should turn to weights and yet it is a difficult task for the big man to perfect timing and rhythm, which are all-important to the shot putter. The increase in public interest in the event is not difficult to explain. This week's competitors will toss the sixteen-pound ball from a spot within the view of thousands in the Stadium. It will require only a glance to show...
...fear lest subdivision at Harvard, if carried far enough to break the present rhythm of student life, would produce American small-college standardization. We should have college traditions legislated into being, disciplinary measures against freaks, an intensive rah-rah spirit. I am sure the thousands of Harvard graduates feel with me that liberty to make our own friends, do what we like, eat where we liked, and wear what we liked, was the most precious aspect of our College life...