Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dress. Hirohito wore an upper cloak of red with a shade of yellow running through it. His loose trousers were of white silk with patterns of butterflies; his belt of black leather with carved stones. The sceptre and crown accompanied...
Yale's triumph in the 1927 relay was the result of a gallant sprint by her anchor man, Hutchinson, which changed a five-yard Crimson lead 75 yards from the tape into Blue victory which was only a shade from a dead heat. But despite this defeat, as near to victory as defeat can be, the 1927 team gave a remarkable performance...
...five men from whom Coach E. L. Farell will pick this year's team against Yale, however, present possibilities of strength which give the University a shade in the predictions. They are R. G. Allen '26, LeB. R. Barker '26, W. L. Chapin '25, B. R. Cutcheon '25, and J. N. Watters '26, Against these runners the Yale four, Bannon, Chapman, Geilfuss, and Douglass, is certain to offer stiff opposition. Bannon has yet to prove himself, but his showing this year has been remarkable. The other three are veterans: Captain Douglass won the Oxford-Cambridge two-mile race...
...over two weeks during the midyear period almost every undergraduate is a "grind". He buys him an eye-shade, locks his study door, and with self-righteous ardor applies himself for long hours to his books. He forsakes his club, turns his back resolutely upon his telephone, and puts off answering his mail...
...Daddy Franklin", he writes, "knew what he was about, the sharp little man. He set up the first dummy American . . . He made himself a list of virtues which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock". He addresses the shade of Crevecoeur with this wagging finger: "Hector St. John, you have lied to me. You lied even more scurrilously to yourself. Hector St. John, you are an emotional liar". Fenimore Cooper felt himself superior to the bourgoise but would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul...