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Word: roses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard cheering stands shivered with Bostonian excitement; fine old gentlemen pushed aside their steamer rugs and rose to their feet, drawling the name of their Alma Mater. Then, amazingly, Holy Cross began to throw the ball around in sly slants, in criss-cross webs, to come from under a 14-0 handicap and win the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Then Koenig fumbled, Meusel muffed, and the Cardinals scored thrice. In the sixth, New York squeaked in its second run and in the seventh filled the bases with two out. As swart Lazzeri dawdled to the plate, the Cardinals huddled around Pitcher Haines. In the stands an angry growl rose to pandemonium. Manager Hornsby came out of the huddle and shouted towards the distant "bull pen" (where pitchers practice). No one appeared. Fielder Hafey spun on his heel to carry the message, when a lumbering, red-sweatered figure appeared. "Alexander!" yelled the stands. That freckled runagade went to the pitcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wooden War | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Abie's Irish Rose-Hearty perennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: List | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...rose throws her garlands for delight...

Author: By D. C. Backus l., | Title: All Kinds and Conditions of Verse | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Sadly, indeed, was Beethoven to be disappointed. "When the phrase 'your subjects' was publicly assigned to the Corps Legislative . . ." says J. H. Rose, the historian, "there was a flutter of wrath among those who had hoped that the new Empire was to be Republican. But it quickly passed away; and no French man, except perhaps Carnot, made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

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