Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a sharp tang in the cold, raw air as they started merrily to such songs as the "International" and the "Red Flag." Leading the procession were red flags and the two banners which read: "On to London, the seat of our trouble" and "We demand bread for our people, justice for the miners." All were stoutly shod and all carried an extra pair of "boots." A rolling kitchen and a motor truck filled with supplies followed them, and there was an ambulance with well-trained male nurses to look after sore and swollen feet...
...were Red sailors, too. Caucasian cavalry dashed by, their gleaming sabres at salute, their long black capes flowing behind; protection troops, wearing their round astrakhan caps, passed by, a little regiment of dwarfs, to the tune of the famed "Volga Boat song"; then came the Turkoman cavalry at a sharp trot, wearing their huge black shakos and great ponchos. Many of the civilian men and women wore weird costumes of the Middle Ages...
...Came to America to Play Zakuri in The Darling of the Gods with Blanche Bates in 1902; with Mrs. Fiske in Becky Sharp, Hedda Gabler, etc.; Disraeli in Disraeli, 1911-15; the Rajah in The Green Goddess, 1921; Sylvanus Heythorp in Old English...
...second semi-final argument of the Ames Competition, held in Langdell Center last night, the Bryce-Powell Law Club, represented by C.G. Heimerdinger 3L., and M.E. Purnell 3L., defeated the Scott Law Club, represented by W.J. Milde 3L., and H.P. Sharp 3L., winning the right to meet the Sanford Law Club in the final argument on January...
...tales are tense, highly nervous situations, but in writing them. Mr. Hemingway does not himself become overwrought: with fine restraint, with a knife-like humor, the author recounts the tragedies and failures of his characters. He writes in the simplest possible terms, in starling pictures, as clear and sharp as snap-shots. In the dialogue, Mr. Hemingway maintains the tempo of his stories: exciting it is, intense, profane, and idiomatic, so real it might have been recorded on a dictaphone to be set down at leisure. This nimble athletic technique seems ideally suited to the short story form. Since...