Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is naught but sorrow, the sweet associations and tender memoirs of eyes "bunged up," of noses wonderfully distended, of battered shins, the many chance blows anteriorly and posteriorly received and delivered, the rush, the struggle, the victory! They call forth our deep regret and unaffected tears. The enthusiastic cheers, the singing of "Auld Lang Syne," each student grasping a brother's hand, all, all, have passed away and will soon be buried with the football beneath the sod--to live hereafter only as a dream in our memories and in the College annals...
...Baptist Church with a set of bells, the largest carillon in the world, and procured from Belgium Anton Brees, carillonneur, to play them. Every Sunday, every Thursday evening and sometimes in the morning, the bells have beautifully pealed forth adaptations of great music. Mr. Rockefeller believes it is a sweet sound. Not so an architect, Maxwell Hyde, who wrote to the New York Times declaring the bells to be "a nuisance"; not so an aged paralytic, who declared the bells tortured him; not so young mothers, who stated to pressmen that they "keep the children awake...
Doctors 20 years ago rode in buggies often pulled by old grey mares that were not what they used to be. Since doctors have taken to riding in buggies with a mechanical put-put, they themselves are not what they used to be, declared Dr. Joshua Sweet, Professor of Surgical Research at the University of Pennsylvania, addressing a congress of Railway Surgeons in Manhattan last week. Said...
...butler and cook shall see that all the rooms peculiar to their officers, together with their appurtenances, be daily set and kept in order, clean and sweet from all manner of noisesomeness and nastiness or sensible offensiveness...
...lovers of sport for sport's sake, defeat is not always bitter, for it may be tempered with satisfaction over a clean contest nobly fought. Under the same conditions of play, however, victory is doubly sweet...