Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veto message was not a masterpiece of style, organization or logic. It was repetitious. But it was also devastating. Many a disinterested person who was obliged to read it admitted he was ready to quit midway and concede the debate to the President. There was, however, one sharp aphorism reminiscent of the Coolidge first known to fame. It was: "Government price fixing, once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared...
...human hands, Mr Miller said, except that the hairy black fingers reminded him of a tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp white teeth, the creature tore only vegetables, no flesh. What, asked Mr. Miller of scientists, is it? Pending further particulars, scientists would...
...affirmative speakers, E.G. Mantle '28, Secretary of the Debating Council, and F.W. Lorenzen '28, President, with R.H. Sharp '30 as alternate will oppose Wesleyan at Middletown. The names of the Connecticut speakers have not as yet been announced...
...sharp-eyed newsgatherer saw that Dr. Abbott's name and pledge for $1,000 headed a posted list of subscribers for a new Lawrenceville dormitory. It was tangible evidence to bear out Dr. Abbott's gruff, nervous statement: "I have put eight years of ceaseless devotion into it, trying to make it the best school in the country...
...They liked his "splendid invective," fashioned after the Greeks. He carried them away with his fleet excursions into the past-Norman England, old France, Rome, Egypt, Cathay-where, in translation and paraphrase, he brought to life moments and persons of high passion and beauty, each age with its own sharp flavor. Poetry being essentially a personal thing, none may credit nor gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been...