Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sagas on legends that passed from mouth to mouth. Now that pink newspapers and catchy captions have taken upon themselves the task of transmitting popular legends at length, the real digest of the news is broadcast in single words and short phrases. Thus Col. Lindbergh's exploit of last spring has become included in all its glory in the monosyllable...
...reality refer to himself and his plane. But, also like older myths, present ones are not easily discredited even when disproved. It would seem likely that by now Col. Lindbergh will have more difficulty in demoting "We" from its false pedestal than he had in placing it there last spring...
...where for a few more years he continued to function. Theodore Tilton went to France; there he was playing chess when a newspaper man handed him a cable which said, "BEECHER DEAD. INTERVIEW TILTON." For a long time Mr. Tilton stared out at the streets of Paris, gay with spring. Then he turned back to his chess board and said to the man he was playing with, "I beg your pardon ... is it my move?" The Book. To fit a name which is now not well remembered, even as a legend of ridiculous shame, Author Hibben has patched together...
...gentle bird was acquired by the Advocate last spring and amuses the members of the board at all meetings with appropriate remarks at the right intervals...
After a complete failure last spring to place even a single entry in the great Hollywood sweepstakes, Harvard has made a belated effort to hide her shame by completing a moving picture enterprise of her own. There may not be a single one of the ten thousand men of Harvard who knows how to use mascara or wear polo shirts open at the throat but, impossible as it may seem, there are demands for other kinds of actors. The films taken by the Harvard Athletic Association staff photographer, of which three copies are to be made in order to insure...