Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweeter, yes far sweeter, than this rhythm or this metre is the way the ladies treat you at the Tent. (Tent Tent...
...keep the crews equally balanced. The strokes, however, are to be changed from one boat to another, and it is probably that the opinions of the men in regard to the respective abilities of the various strokes will figure in Coach Brown's final choice. The timing and rhythm so essential to a stroke oar may be judged by the men who are rowing behind him as well as by the coach, according to Coach Brown...
...paid tribute at an alumni dinner to eleven other iron men— the Brown football team that played through the season undefeated.* He derided the idea that he fed his protégés on milk. "Music," he said, "is what makes Iron Men. The players depend on rhythm and morale, and unless you have a singer or two on the squad you have a tough time keeping up the morale. Whenever we were in the train on the way to a game I always made them start a song...
...table he stopped and shook hands-with his left hand. To use his right would have dislodged the poise of the fine muscles there. The table stood on a carpet in the middle of the ballroom. He began to play with confidence and a measured rhythm. From four sides of the room the faces of the crowd, banked in rows, in the shadow, in the airless heat, watched him without moving. This was an important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German...
...criticism. It is well that everyone knows Fascism does not fear either verbal or actual antagonists. What Fascism refuses to permit is liberty of libel, which is also severely banned by American legislation. That is to say, we insist upon tranquillity arid security for the Italian people, whose productive rhythm must proceed without being disturbed. Do you believe we can stop our march at every step to bend to pick up miserable scraps of paper which are thrown...