Word: tame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battling Siki: "I was obliged to postpone my match with the British middleweight Moore because my arm was bitten by a lion I was trying to tame...
...American idea of education is all wrong, as I and Upton Sinclair have believed from the first. Not being a tame conformist, I have arrived two weeks behind the herd to prove my theory at this university of monuments and mudholes here in Cambridge...
...Vachel Lindsay-Appleton ($1.75). Mr. Lindsay is not crazy. But in the very excited intensity of his sanity there is a sort of madness. His verse shouts and capers in a boisterous exuberance of imagination. He flings images at you-talking flowers, magic roosters " that no storm can tame," amiable mountain cats, comets. The longest and most flaming of all these poems is called So Much the Worse for Boston...
...blare of trumpets came the pageantry of the "Praying Colonels" and after them the war dance of the Lost Tribe re-discovered. Up from the south came the Alligators, hardly disposed of when the Tiger sprang into the arena, dieted on raw beef so long that all efforts to tame him were unsuccessful...
...architecturally the most cheerful place on earth--holds some 1300 people. The Living Room of the Union seats seven or eight hundred, and when double this number is crowded into it--as when Governor Cox visited Harvard last year-- their experience makes a New York subway jam seem tame by contrast. An auditorium with seats for three or four thousand, in which could be held Commencement exercises, the exercises on the morning of Class Day, and important lectures and mass meetings, would be a useful addition to the University...