Word: spartanism
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...University Flying Club has its head quarters at the Boston Metropolitan Airport, near Norwood, where the Wiggins Airways has put their planes at the disposal of the club. The following planes are available at a very reasonable rate to the members of the club: Aero Marine Taylor Club, two Spartan Low Wings, Kinner Low Wing Cirrus Fairchild 22, Warner Fairchild 24, and other types...
...blood began to tell. He grew more and more like his old uncle, sank deeper and deeper into the soil, while his wife stifled for a breath of the civilization she was used to. Eventually they agreed to separate; she went back to town and left Willoughby to his Spartan acres and his Spartan thoughts...
...hulk, pronounced it hale, it seemed improbable that he would be a match for a champion who weighed 50 Ib. more, and stood 4 in. taller than he. Camera had trained with characteristic solemnity. Six weeks of roadwork, six daily rounds of boxing and a Spartan diet made his muscles swell with awesome health when he clambered into his corner of the ring at the Madison Square Garden bowl in Long Island City. When the bell rang for the first round, he lumbered earnestly out of his corner and pushed his left fist inquisitively into Baer's grinning face...
Miss Gore was born on the banks of the Shannon, a member of a large and odd family," and was reared in the south of England. Her Spartan father, recently deceased, "believed all poets were blackguards, that Moses actually saw God in the brush fire, that ethical excellence could only be inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores...
...Ernest Hemingway should read this book he would be less flattered than embarrassed. Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with...