Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind of preparation. But at present the interest is more inward. The proper preparation is to acquire the greatest cultural tradition possible. The day of bright, gifted auto-didacts is over. The profound assimilation of a little experience is now more valuable than hurried acquaintance with a great many sharp unrelated facts. The literature of super reporting from time to time can rise to a virtuosity that gives it all the effect of creative lyricism. But it takes a real genius such as Balzae to accomplish this, and more often a writer falls into sterile description...
...Insult-Extraordinary, you repair again to the Insulter's home, and standing upon the door sill, disembowel yourself with a sharp knife. This is the final retort (hara-kiri), to which there can be no reply...
...extraordinarily insulted, and although he seized a hara-kiri knife and rushed in a towering rage to the house of his insulter, he failed to disembowel himself upon the doorstep. Instead, when Insulter Yamamoto opened his door, In-sultee Furoda, violating every canon of Japanese etiquette, plunged the short sharp blade not into his own vitals, but into those of the astounded Farmer-Laborite, who died instanter...
...doubts as to whether the University polo team will compete in the National Indoor Tournament in New York City at the end of next week were dispelled yesterday with the announcement by Captain F. D. Sharp, polo coach, that F. A. Clark '29, the Crimson captain, would play in all the matches. There was some question whether Clark would play, owing to his activity with the University crew...
...James" he is sometimes called for his courtly manners. He is full of funny stories, at which he cackles broadly himself. Behind the affable exterior is a sharp business-like personality that achieves difficult objectives. What he knows or thinks about the War Department it is impossible to say, but until last week he probably knew and thought very little about...