Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing into "balderdash" on the one hand or the "sour beer" attitude on the other, to quote his terms, he has been penetrating enough to embody...
Delmar Leighton '19 was nominated from the officers of the University. Mr. Leighton is at present Dean of Records. F. W. Moore '92, Graduate Treasurer and Secretary of the Harvard Athletic Association, was nominated from the Harvard Alumni. G. H. Stark was nominated from the student body of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...People familiar with South Carolina say the State goes stark, staring, raving crazy about every thirty years. In 1801 it voted solidly and persistently for Aaron Burr for president. In 1830 it undertook to nullify the tariff laws of the United States and was called to order sternly by Andrew Jackson. In 1860-61 it first seceded and then fired on Fort Sumpter and forced the rest of us into a hopeless civil war. In 1891 it threw out of the United States Senate Wade Hampton, the greatest soldier it ever has produced, and the man whose magnificent and daring...
...women of America are not pacifists? they never have been?from the days of Mollie Stark, Betty Zane and Margaret Lynn Lewis...
...Everett went. At the humble birthplace of the sculptor, he carried on his research. From the depths of a cellar, four statues were brought up to light. They were magnificent figures* of Washington. But, alas, stark nude...