Word: sores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renovation of the bridging of the Charles river which will be a material aid to University rowing has recently been announced. It has been decided that the old Cottage Farm bridge, which has long been an eye sore to travelers between Boston and Cambridge, shall be demolished and a modern structure of concrete and iron be erected in its place...
...Professor Baker the sorehead seems particularly sore. Of him he writes...
...Significance. Mr. Lewis once had a romantic twist (see Free Air, The Trail of the Hawk, The Job). Then discontent plagued him sore. He pickaxed through Main Street, spitted Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
...vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found in his verse the evidence of great talent. He, happy in the promise of the career that opened before him, enjoyed life immensely? when he did not happen to have a sore throat...
...with his friend Charles Brown in Hampstead, next door to a certain Mrs. Brawne "whose daughter senior," he wrote, "is, I think, beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange." He fell in love with this girl at once, she with him. Though circumstances?the increasing number of his sore throats, his intentness on his work, his need of money?kept them much apart, Keats' love for Fanny Brawne grew until it absorbed his life. One night, he rode on a stagecoach without his greatcoat, coughed a bright stain into his bedsheets. "I know the color of that blood...