Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least weekly workouts on the Charles in a single shell. When this turbulent river is frozen over, Dick, versatile athlete that he is, turns to fancy skating. He is a member of the Boston Skating Club and those who have seen him perform in the Boston Arena say that he cuts a mean figure...
From our youth we have been nourished, weaned, rocked to sleep--in the good old cradle daze later entertained, diverted, but seldom amused, by stories of Harvard men, or further concerning Harvard men. I say we have not been amused: perhaps that is a trifle strong Whenever the story teller speaks as if his mouth were harboring a hot potato and says that in the way they talk around Boston, we laugh. That is only natural. But we also assume Harvard to have undergone adaptation to environment. A Harvard men must say "car" like a sheep with a cold...
Whether Harvard men really are wet or not I cannot venture to say because I have never been able to find out what the word meant. The legendary Harvard man is rather "moist" (a belittling term), but that is because the originators of the numerous stories had good imaginations. Actually he seems to know quite a little about life a considerable amount to be candid. Whether he is right or not is nobody's concern. If song and story were infallible estimations of Harvard mentality, the chances are that he would be a trifle mistaken. And at this point...
...only read out loud at home every evening; he offered every family in the land choice material for similar reading; every Sunday he read to the inmates of the Hospital for Incurables, not Tar from Shady Hill.... To describe Charles Eliot Norton in a single phrase, I should say, as he said of Emerson, that of all the men I have known, he made the strongest impression of consistent loftiness of character
...William Edgar Gell placed her confidence in that long fallon prophet M. Coue. "Wherever you can get an audience of one or two women together, three, four or five times a day say, in a resolute voice, "I believe in the Eighteenth Amendment...