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Robert Fitzgerald's Poems are much smoother and more conventional in form. His themes are often familiar-his Boston poems include a "Charles River Nocturne," glimpses of the Common-and he writes of autumn woods and winter nights. A dominant note in his poems is loneliness, but it is a loneliness the poet accepts without regret, and it is enriched with memories of childhood, with grave and unpretentious reflections on destiny and death, with flashes of warmly human or amusingly discordant scenes that the world offers for his attention. Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual...
...Governor Herring at the game, suggested that the pig should be named "New Deal." When Governor Herring rejected the suggestion, the father of the President's two favorite grandchildren retorted, "Then I think you ought to grease it a little with cold cream to make it a smoother proposition...
Oxford got the better start. At Craven's Steps, Cambridge, pulling with an easier stroke, was three quarters of a length in front. The Cambridge coxswain, Duckworth, hugged the Surrey bank for smoother water. Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths...
Coach Hoople has not yet made up his mind as to which is the first Varsity fifty boat and which is second. The crew stroked by Whitney has more power than that stroked by Eaton but Eaton's is smoother and which will prove the fastest is still a moot point. The seatings follow: stroke, Lawrence V. Eaton '36; 7, Hayden Estey '36; John L. Swasey '35; 5, Edward T. Gignoux '35; 4, John L. Lyman '37; 3, Morris Piaelzer, 2nd '35; 2, Eliot Pierce '36; bow, Robert S. Chafee '36; and cox, Edward T. Barker '37. The other boat...
...slide-fastened fly gives a much smoother and neater effect in front than is possible with buttons, but the ordinary slide fastener has an uncovered strip of metal that is objectionable to men who take pride in being well-dressed...