Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With an unexpectedness that was as unnerving as a thunderclap he twisted the tail of Senor Quinones' butterfly resolution into a hornet's sting; proposed an amendment that would give the League power to make "regional compacts" binding on the whole world, with a force as rigid as that once contemplated in drawing up the Protocol...
...sterling tennis. In 1921 she was put at number 4 in the national ranking. Last March, in Pasedena, she took a set from Champion Helen Wills. She played her again last week in the third round, won the first two games, returned Miss Wills' terrific forehanders with a sting that made a huge gallery rise to cheer her. The match, however, could have only one outcome; the score of her de-feat was 6-3, 6-2. While this was occurring, Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Mrs. Bundy's opponent in the Wimbleton finals...
...FALL GUY?Fussy little worm in a cheap Harlem flat who turns to sting the crook trying to step...
...creature. I once heard a wise man say that what struck you, as you compared the American student with the European student, was the "docility of the American student. Seeming to attack the system, whether of undergraduate credits or doctor's theses, these three papers, are really attempting to sting the student out of his docility. The good student is always an "intractable animal" and how to get rid of him" is the eternal problem of education. With the general theses of these papers most of us are in entire accord. William James said much of it years...
...Tabanidae see classification of Diptera a house fly and a horse fly, having it out through the screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have...