Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad could go into training with the opening of the college and be in tiptop shape for an opening game late in October...
Accordingly, President Doumergue called upon M. Herriot to lick his dog and its tail into shape and form a cabinet. For the third time last week the tail, wagged by M. Blum, wagged on. He would listen to nothing but supremacy for his Unified Socialists. Thus faced with flat insubordination in the cartel, M. Herriot grew furious. After informing President Doumergue that he could not form a cabinet, he rushed to a caucus of his still loyal adherents and had a motion passed approving his refusal to form a cabinet on Blum's terms. This action was widely interpreted...
Five letter men form a nucleus around which the Crimson team will be built. Prospects consequently are very bright, and no time will be lost in whipping the team into shape for the coming contests...
...eyes at his scaled and glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become caught on his scales; he had choked, writhed, and so-devoured by self-worship-choked to death...
...essayed the comedy of Menelaus' return. It is a comedy of manners-all conversation (and plenty of it), witty, charming, subtle. Much of it is new as milk still warm from the udder, and much of it is old as human nature. It is cast in the shape of a modern novel, and yet, as regards the number of characters for example, it almost conforms to the rules of the old Greek drama. It is a fastidious tidbit for lovers of refinement, polished facets of philosophy, shrewd comment on human nature...