Word: sweeting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have in Cambridge a sweet, sound every-day college for girls; and that college is beginning to get a good every-day endowment. In that endowment lies today the hopes of those who would still preserve unimpaired the almost unbroken tradition of Harvard virility." - Barrett Wendell of the Faculty Committee on Relations with Radcliffe College...
...football is thought of as a man's game, but women are not immune to its brutal charms. At a recent game between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions, a sweet young thing was explaining to her father about some charitable enterprise on which her sorority at a local college had embarked. Suddenly, on the field, Bear Linebacker Dick Butkus very nearly decapitated a Lion runner. Out went charity. "Attaway, Dick!" shrieked Sweet Young Thing. "Attababy. Kill the sonofabitch." There is, in short, a bit of the beast in all true football fans...
Nevertheless, Mary does show a great deal of talent. Ganin's sweet memories of pre-Revolution Russia and of his love encounters there with Mary are very promising. The sense of intimacy and sadness is worthy of Chekhov. Your descriptions of the countryside would have been the envy of Turgenev. May I commend you especially on the book's inventiveness and control. Having the depressed Ganin find new vitality through his memories while awaiting Mary's arrival from the Soviet Union creates a natural suspense of great force. Making Mary the wife of a bland squirt...
...animal is very faint. Louis befriends a small boy, Sam, who takes the swan to his school in Montana to learn how to read and write. ("If I can teach a bird to write," says Mrs. Hammerbotham, first grade teacher, "it'll be big news all over the Sweet Grass country. I'll get my picture in Life magazine. I'll be famous...
PRINCETON-BROWN: Yawn. If you're sweet sixteen now, you weren't even one when Brown last beat the Tigers. Old Nassau has hardly been a powerhouse this fall, but when the Bruins lose to Colgate, I'd say don't bet the ranch on Brown. Don't even bet yesterday's grits. Call...