Word: smote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene was enacted for the 94th annual time. The Juniors of Yale College gathered on their inner campus and among them prowled the members of the secret senior honor societies. Hushed with excitement, doubt, hope, anticipation, the candidates stood in strained groups until, singly, the messengers found their men, smote them on the back and uttered the accolade's famed salutation...
...sore ailment, described on the programs as "indisposition," smote Tenor Beniamino Gigli just before he was to appear as Vasco da Gama in L'Africaine. Mario Chamlee sprang into the breach. Without rehearsal, without ever having appeared in the role on any stage, he sang it resonantly, fluently, confidently...
...rock with his trowel; Architect Cram gave a signal to his men; the block and tackle twitched the stone aloft, lowered it reverently into place upon the box. Now there was only one more thing to do. The Bishop picked up a heavy mahogany mallet. Three times he smote the stone and in reverberating accents intoned...
...soul-sick one called for his bill. It was exorbitant. He seized a femur from the wall. With one blow he smote the waiter senseless to the floor; with another he felled a fellow-drinker who had rushed to the waiter's defense...
...footers, down went nasty 6 footers, down went Jess Sweetser, by a stroke on the last green. Golf, chortled the supporters of Lloyd, is a humbling game. Out sallied Lloyd to play in the finals against 18-year-old Eugene Homans, Junior Metropolitan Champion. His putter jerked, his wrists smote the ball over, under and around; Homans defeated him, 4 up and 2 to go. Golf- mused Lloyd, as he saw presented to Homans a silver flagon four feet high- golf...