Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are other diversions beside talking and thinking offered at Silver Bay--baseball, swimming, canoeing and mountain climbing in a country almost as beautiful as Switzerland. But neither the primary nor the secondary object of the conference is to tack up new athletic records nor to supply opportunities for strength contests. The gathering is frankly a conference, a religious conference wherein active men such as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Dean W. L. Sperry will lead a discussion of practical questions of an all-important subject...
...muddle." It is lost and groping its way in its search for new forms, and this naturally troubles such conservatives as Chesterton. The followers of Michael Angelo (individualists, like Picasso) represented a definite decline in Italian art. Are the imitators of Picasso also on the wrong tack...
Marie Nordstrom in "Tick Tack" proves to be the star of the evening. This piece is excellently done and gives conclusive evidence of Miss Nordstrom's above-the-ordinary ability and versatility...
...especially Kane and Hubbard, who played exceedingly alert bruising games, but couldn't last the whole distance. Garrity's plunging was of a high order; behind Keek and Hooper, the former New back, aided by especially effective interference by Gilroy seemed to roll off center defense and inside the tack into a free field where Havemeyer, played an equally good roving defer usually felled him. The Crimson secondary alert for forwards were not pared to stem these bucks. Murrey not show his speed to advantage, buttoned some beautiful passes, two which including the now famous he to Lourie, covering...