Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left out of the account, however. It is easy to imagine the Henry James so pictured as a mildly comic figure in London drawing rooms, but it is impossible to imagine such an individual writing The Beast in the Jungle or The Altar of the Dead. Author Nowell-Smith has traced through their mutations several of the famous inane or incredibly affected remarks attributed to James, by various writers, pointing to an unmistakable conclusion: they were apocryphal. James was a character. Anecdotes were attributed to him, the way jokes about monosyllabic New Englanders were attributed to Calvin Coolidge...
...James faced the storm, his round face white, his mouth opening and shutting." Then the star dragged him back into the wings. A contemporary account suggested that there had been a cabal against the play, and that the hissing began according to a prearranged signal. Says Author Nowell-Smith: "The problem is perhaps now insoluble...
...adjoining field, George Hanford's Freshmen pulled an upset by scalping the Indian freshmen 6 to 4. Dick Hansen was brilliant in flattening Dartmouth attack star Smitty Smith every time he leaped into the air for a shot...
Tackling a consistently strong prep school squad, the Yardlings were not able to score until the seventh when Ed Smith was hit by a pitched ball, moved to second on Ernie Wohler's sacrifice, and scored when the Andover shortstop muffed Harry Cavanaugh's grounder...
...Morton, Hal Marshall, Smith, and Neil Harper picked up the losers' safeties...