Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direction of Coach Stubbs. Where Yale boasted more and more brilliant individual performers, Harvard presented a game based on lines of sound coaching which checked and smothered the Yale speed. Especially notable was the Harvard defense method of meeting the attack at center ice and taking its sting before it was near the goal. It is such achievements as this, in the face of dubious odds, that bring home forcibly the fact that the University sport teams are guided by men who know their business. The second trial of hockey strength between the teams will be watched more eagerly because...
Offending the Negro politicians will never do, for their power at the nominating convention of 1932 may be as great as ever. But the Hoover heart beats in sincere, if muffled, sympathy with Southern white men. His instinct is to heed their wishes. He knows the sting of the "nigger lover" cry, which was raised bitterly albeit futilely against him in the campaign. In his Elizabethton, Tenn., speech, he said, by way of promise: "I believe . . . that appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve...
Black of New York is another Democratic gadfly, forever shuttling in and out of debate with stinging comments and troublesome questions. He is something of the playboy-too much so for the leaders to take his buzz and sting very seriously...
David Lawrence, onetime Associated Press shadow of Woodrow Wilson, has softened his sting and dampened his flair, partly because conservatism becomes the publisher of the neutral United States Daily, partly because he talks on the radio...
Such lashing words must have cut deeper than pain; but suddenly their sting was soothed, as the great, soup-plate-like medal arrived and was placed in the trembly hands of General Umberto Nobile. Immediately his careworn features relaxed, and he seemed to bask at length in Peace...