Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came a voice, as Edward rose smiling to return the toast: "Your Royal Highness must consider that an 'oath of fealty...
Last week President Wark got up to talk in chapel. From heads, reverently bowed, from mouths buried in hymn books, veiled in handkerchiefs, courteously concealed by immobility and cupped fingers, rose a sound. "H-s-s-ssss." Dr. Wark paid no attention. Ear- lier in the morning a janitor had cut down a straw effigy, bearing a distant resemblance to Dr. Wark, from the bough of a campus tree...
Winston Guest will captain the Blue. He is undoubtedly the greatest intercollegiate player, and last summer rose from college ranks to play on Stephen Sanford's Hurricanes. Redington Barrett and Frederick Baldwin, both players of several years' experience, will complete the fast riding Blue trio...
...Marshal sat down amid a hush. Bobby is evidently still dear to him, for his head sank upon his breast and he did not look up at first when Marshal Foch rose smilingly to relate an anecdote...
...Teddy, coal-black boiler room cat at the Metropolitan Opera, last week momentarily disrupted a performance of Turandot. As the curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese...