Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parades in joyous camaraderie or basks on the warm turf within the Stadium, the kaleidoscopic scenes will become part of a tender and ever youthful memory. And as the events of the day march by, he looks forward with growing delight to the last scene of all--the refreshing shower that falls upon his parched brow as the clock of Memorial Tower strikes midnight. In fact, as the poet has so aptly said...
...desperate. The dismissed man's sweetheart visits Lady Clarissa, and obtains her promise that her flance shall be reinstated. John still refuses and Lady Clarissa breaks her engagement to him. Things are in a terrible muddle, when John speaking to the employees at the mass meeting amidst a shower of eggs and stones, convinces them that he is right. In the meanwhile, Lady Clarissa has found that her true fate is John"s secretary ; she proposes to him and is accepted. The happy couple break the news to the great business man, who generously gives his sucessful rival a "raise...
...Knights of Columbus six had the advantage in speed, but the seconds' cooperation was able to break up most of the attacks before the Marquette wings reached an advantageous shooting position. Those who did get by found another strong opposition at the net, for Dole, repeatedly turned away a shower of hard drives. It was due to his alertness and the counter attacks launched by the forward line that prevented the superior team from scoring till the last half of the work...
...upon the Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common...
...first period, which ended in a draw, was a battle to the death between Holmes and Wylde, playing at the cage for the B. A. A. The former, employing at various moments, feet, hands, legs, body and stick, was the butt of a perfect shower of shots, while Wylde, hammered almost as unceasingly by the University skaters, was bombarded, and driven out of position a dozen times, though succeeding in covering up on each occasion...