Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Since it is a graceless business to cast aspersion at the work of one so justly honored as the author of this novel, it may be said that the book teems with action. Like a disorderly street seen from a window, cobbled with yellow faces, it teems; adventures shoulder and jostle; events prod each other's ribs; Sentimentality picks the pocket of Romance. One is forcibly reminded that nothing is quite so dull as unvaried liveliness. It is a book that achieves a forthright swagger that the fiction of this latter day has largely lost. Beauty in distress...
...race against time must not be lost. It sounds cold-blooded, almost brutal. But who was it that hurried into the locker building the moment practice was closed, ran upstairs to the doctor's room where the boy was lying down being bandaged, put one hand on his shoulder, gently ran his other hand across the boy's wet brow and remarked 'That's not perspiration, son, that's sweat'? Who was it that left a suffering boy with tears of happiness welling in his eyes because he had exonerated himself in the eyes of the man whose good opinion...
...supreme master. We started out of the locker building, P. D. at the head. On the steps a freshman candidate for manager stepped up to Haughton with a message sent him from the field P D swung his arm, grabbed the astounded manager by the shoulder, roughly shoved him out of the path into a clump of shrubs. With a sharp 'Get out of the way, damn you,' he stopped, pointed at the Stadium 'Own it," he said...
...Conservative poster shows Hubert Herkomer's famed Worker on Strike. He stands glowering at the door of his house, while his wife with her child in her arms hides her face in misery on his shoulder. The caption is "The Socialists promised me work...
Failing, who has been out with bronchitis, is back on the squad. Scott, who was at first thought to be out of the game for the rest of the season because of an injured shoulder received Saturday, was at the field and followed the scrimmage since an X-ray reverted no serious injury...