Word: suffolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lloyd Harper's Jayvee nine will take on their last opponents prior to the Yale game today, when Suffolk University visits Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. This game is the next to last tilt of the season, as Saturday's meeting with the Yale Jayvees is the year's finale...
Hewitt is 6 feet 5 inches tall, or 21 hands, and usually leaves the jockey chores to Eddie Arcaro, who is somewhat smaller, but he is quite familiar with the sport of kings. In one outing at Suffolk Downs Hewitt picked 15 horses in the money out of 16 races...
Sports-minded undergraduates who manage to forsake the Braves-Phillies doubleheader, Suffolk Downa and the Marathon tomorrow afternoon in favor of the curtain-raising Harvard-Brown-Rhode Island State track meet in the Stadium will be amply rewarded...
...Utopian experiment consisted chiefly in following the Wordsworthian principles of "plain living and high thinking." Shunning his parents' wealthy house, FitzGerald rented a small cottage in Suffolk, where he lived for 16 years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr...
FitzGerald returned to his Suffolk solitude, where he wrote his little-known translations of Aeschylus and Sophocles. As he aged, he became one of the county sights-a "tall, sad-faced elderly gentleman ... in an ill-fitting suit. . . blue spectacles on nose and an old cape. . . ." He lived to see his Rubaiyat become famous, but died (1883) a couple of decades before its fame became "a mania which swept the world" and posed a literary question that still engrosses Rubaiyat lovers : How much of Omar is Omar and how much is FitzGerald...