Word: riving
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...York City (population circa 2,300,000). It has just begun to erect skyscrapers, is jeered at by many Manhattanites who used to live there, has been variously entitled the bedroom of New York City, a group of small towns, "the city of churches," and New York's "rive gauche" (left bank). But Brooklyn has an esthetic tradition all its own. There lived Poet Walt Whitman, Critic James Gibbons Huneker, Artist Joseph Pennell. There in the picturesque "Brooklyn Heights" section overlooking New York Harbor, live many refugees from Manhattan's "arty" and despoiled Greenwich Village, including...
...triumph. After twice coming from behind to tie the score the Crimson committed a boner that would not have affected the score had there been only mediocre opposition but the Orange had been playing the home team on a par throughout and utilized this break to rive itself the game...
...smalltown pastorates, gathered in Washington last week for the Northern Baptist Convention. They gathered to state opinions that were burning within them and to ask questions that had been troubling their reins this long time. And they gathered in pity and fear, for they faced a problem that might rive their church to its foundations...
...contrast what they see here and with what they find at home and elsewhere. The necessary insufficiency of the judgments made, does not render them useless. First impressions will do very well to stimulate thought. And it is rather to be regretted that the customary restraints of courtesy de rive Harvard men of the entirely frank opinion of those who have suggestive comparisons to make. For Harvard hardly pretends to represent perfection in any field; and her guests are usually, in some sort, specialists...
Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...