Word: routs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon their personalities. Those who were in trepidation slept or snarled; those who enjoyed the dog show, as many women enjoy large dinner parties, sat up and preened their coats, or barked merrily. To stroll into this lowest floor, where the dogs were "benched" was like strolling into a rout or reception, as imagined by some satirist whose fancy was for the morbid & grotesque; a tramp would have died, surely & instantly, of fright...
...Negro vote, but will not disguise the fact that Meek Mose, in acting and writing, was irreparably inept. It tells of an aged darky and the slap, slap, slap of life as he turned the other cheek. The inevitable chant of spirituals saved the night from utter rout...
HUBBY'S BACCHANALIAN ROUT...
...injuries more serious than minor bruises and strains were discovered when the University football squad reported yesterday for the first practice since Saturday's rout before the flying Dartmouth eleven. Further indications that the Crimson will be represented in full strength in the Indiana game next Saturday came in the fact that the three players who were kept out of the Dartmouth contest on account of injuries were all in uniform yesterday...
These defeats became virtually a rout last week and at the psychological moment General Chiang's nominal ally, the eccentric "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang suddenly ordered him by telegraph to resign...