Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of Henry Beeker, faithful newspaperman. Son of a blacksmith father, Henry enters the employ of a Boston newspaper as an office-boy-just for a summer vacation period. He does his work well and is encouraged to give up school, to remain with the paper. Filled with splendid visions, he agrees. Follow years of small successes, small sorrows, marriage, babies, undimmed visions. Life's autumn finds Henry definitely shelved -almost pensioned-in the profession he has studied so long but never conquered. He still gazes up at glittering, obviously unattainable pinnacles. Author Williams has written without affection...
...President Coolidge," he continued, "in refusing the nomination for a third term has kept one of America's splendid precedents alive. If from out of a voting population as large as this country has, the people can find only one man that is capable of filling the presidential chair, then the country is in a sad state...
...fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered in the secrecy of an English garden. Beside him how does Miss Loos, how does even Mr. Galsworthy, in spite of his splendid achievements, stand...
...rouge, a cunning disguise; powder has permitted the dirty to remain unwashed and undetected; wigs are for those who can grow no hair; magicians, incapable of miracles, can conjure up an appearance of supernatural; many a pretentious coping is built, as i to protect the high rooms of some splendid mansion, along an untenanted rood; the vase with one broken handle faces the world with the other...
Battling to a splendid finish against the strongest distance runners in the country, Captain J. L. Reid '29 took third place in the Intercollegiate cross-country races in which 19 colleges competed on the Van Cortlandt Park course in New York yesterday, and led his team, with a score of 60, to a second place in the cross-country classic, which was won by Penn State, with a score...