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They come with and without "Brummy", "snig", and "sportserapana" form perhaps their prize triumvirate. In the order named, these three compose a trochaic line of no dull rythm, and, corralled into a sentence, they provide salutary exercise for those who have given up Sanskrit. For example: "It's a snig" means, not "Throw that alarm clock out of the window", but, "It is an unseen object of my desire". Those addicted to abstraction have thus a new vehicle of expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DICTIONEERING | 4/1/1926 | See Source »

Hereafter the name of Lansdowne will be the rythm for a proud measure in the epic of the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shenandoah | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...Junior Dance is the Senior fiancee meets unusual circumstances tonight. Realizing that 1920 is leap year we are lost in conjecture, wondering how the delicate feminine intuition will avail itself of this opportunity to usurp the masculine prerogative. In the lilt of a Strauss waltz or the sensuous rythm of a fox trot the Harvard undergraduate loses that abstraction which is so noticeable in the lecture hall. He will be engulfed, a little by the soft eyes and wavy tresses of some maid, and Harvard indifference will give way to a flush of crimson color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEAP YEAP AT THE UNION. | 3/12/1920 | See Source »

...entire company engages in a battle with the audience with paper oranges as ammunition. In "Follow the Cook," Trixie Fringaza shows how much "music" a stove covered with suitable pots and pans can yield. The music as a whole is lively and gay, with a rythm and refrain not easily lost. "Canary Cottage" and "I Never Knew" are the real game of the piece and keep you whistling in spite of yourself...

Author: By R. W. G. ., | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 1/10/1917 | See Source »

...separated the shells. A half length lead at the first mile post was slowly increased until the final mile, when Lund pushed the stroke up a couple of notches and the University boat pulled steadily away from the blue oarsmen, who were rowing individually strongly but utterly lacking in rythm. The University boat was a well ordered machine efficiently doing the work it was made for, while the Yale shell was filled with eight powerful oarsmen who failed simply because they lacked unity and precision. The official time of the race was 20.02, eight seconds better than the mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CREW DEFEATED YALE BOAT IN RECORD TIME | 9/22/1916 | See Source »

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