Word: tame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even in its most unrestrained moments, the effete East confines itself to tearing down goal-posts. Nothing so tame and un-destructive would do for the Middle West. With all the recourses of Chicago at their disposal, liquid and otherwise, the students of Northwestern University felt that their football celebration was still too cramped. So they turned pyromaniac and burned and abandoned fraternity house. Even after firemen and policemen dragged them away, and put out the fire, they were determined to burn at least the wooden stands around the old athletic field. No doubt the Chicago Tribune will...
...vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses a paragraph. He presents whole regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino...
...birds trying to clean one another of this filth that defies description, and we see birds made tame by terror of it. We find tangled on the sea wrack masses of black filth that are still living birds, and we have seen in oil, when it has concentrated into long black lines, the horrors of black, croaking phantoms that were still birds...
That was in 1904. Now, 21 years later, Raisuli, the bandit, grown fat and old and tame, is prisoner of a new son of the desert, Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Feb. 16, SPAIN). Now, according to word that came across the Atlantic last week, Ion Perdicaris is dead in Chislehurst, England...
...three most considerable articles, "Tame Asses", "Learning", and "Too Many Educators", address themselves to the absorbing problem of ourselves as undergraduates, graduates, and teachers. The caption of the first article not only has a flick at current fiction; it recalls a profoundly significant remark of Mandell Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden...