Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Competition between the English and American collegians dates back to the nineteenth century. The first set of games was held in London in 1899. Then, a team headed by J. T. Roche '99 of Harvard and T. R. Fisher '99 of Yale lost to Oxford and Cambridge...
...Manhattan is a dance hall called Roseland. Here, in a ballroom, wide and long, two orchestras manufacture music which substitutes speed and clamor for melody and merriment. Here, with set faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...
Even at the last minute the conference lived up to its reputation for the unexpected. While the 14 delegates blinked at a battery of cameras, a short-circuited sunlamp set fire to one of the saffron window curtains. The 14 delegates sat, dignified and stately, while excited waiters and cameramen rushed about with fire extinguishers, put out the blaze...
...tiny hamlets of Campitello. Pagani and Avino, first in the flood's path, were wiped out. Over vineyards and through forests the lava moved toward Terzigno in two grasping, fingerlike streams. The villagers, rooted to their homes, set images and holy relics on trees and vines, to face the destroyer. In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine. The flood forked in two just above the village, flowed around it on both sides, moved forward and crept together slowly toward the walls. As his home crumpled and smashed...
...honor themselves in honoring (set sentiment of all bestowal speeches). Unmentionable concomitant: Publicity...