Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...H.A.A. regulations read that if you once pass out you cannot come back and see the rest of the game. We feel sure this rule will be put to a rigid test...
...even Mr. Cecil de Mille would find difficult to rival. This the rest from the editing of the over cantious publisher, but the subsequent omission of the chapters $6 and $2 complete is hardly an act which will recommend it self to the judicious and exacting reader. To be sure, these passages and the delightful interline included therein might not be missed by students unfamiliar with the original text, but without them and the sundry other amourous moments wherein the chastest of embraces have been substituted for move strictly anatomical descriptions, it is difficult to understand how Petronius acquired...
...many "traditional" customs here, however, date back any great distance. To be sure, the tintinabulation of the college bell at the hour of 7 o'clock in the morning has been recurring daily for untold ages, and the college Yard has been a Yard for nearly 100 years and never once a Campus; but most of the collegiate Idiosyncrasies of Harvard are still in comparative infancy...
...graces about him, no strainings for effect. One will not find in him the vulgar American sin of falseness nor yet the favorite modern one of incoherence. In his prose we feel the wiry strength of steel springs: quickly, it moves with the panther's lithe, coordinate tread, so sure...
...boots and quest of youth, he ventures over the blood-and-thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant with romantic excitement no less hard than did less hardy readers at The Brood Highway...