Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors (there are three of them) have chosen a splendid background for drama. They tell their story in the "wings" of a rodeo that has brought its troupe of cowboys and cowgirls into Chicago for a week. There is plenty of color here and an opportunity to deal with the elemental emotions of simple folk. The idea of a clash between these softhearted, hard-boiled plainsmen and the unscrupulous racketeers of the second city of the land is excellent. The elaborations and the compromises are what hurt...
...Chrysostom's stands at No. 1424 North Dearborn Parkway, on the edge of Chicago's "Gold Coast." Originally it was a small vine-covered church. Now it looms, magnificently Gothic, splendid rival of St. James, Chicago's other great Episcopalian church...
Tears for so splendid an old paladin seemed more than vain, yet they were not lacking, last week, when the nine doctors left the Marshal's room, after examining their patient with especial earnestness...
...should develop leaders, we should pay less attention to marks, standing and degrees and more to character. We should pay attention to every form of college life. We give our men a splendid education but we are sadly lacking in culture...
...exciting match, and the latter's fine defense amounted to more than Kelsey's victory would indicate. The best bout of the evening was between P. N. Vonckx '31 and Nathaniel Warner '30 Vonckx, with a bad wrist, was forced to default after about six minutes, after a splendid exhibition of game wrestling, Coach Lewis refereed...