Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team. Arlington High was overcome in a very uninteresting game by the decisive score of 6-1. The strong Newton High aggregation succeeded in tying the Freshmen by the score of 2-2, when Stubbs of the schoolboys slammed a fast puck by Cary, the substitute 1930 goal tender, in the closing seconds of play. In this game the first-year men showed a marked improvement in every respect. There was better teamwork and the wings put power and direction in their shots...
...have established. And time and again their efforts have been thrown down, because members of the City Council, have called this "mere graft" for the business community and a "scheme" on the part of the Chamber of Commerce to help its own interests. Now Councillor Fitzgerald suddenly grows strangely tender for the convenience of Boston's business men and on this part of his case as aforesaid it is difficult to have patience...
...down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing characters flood the pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid. It is in the retailing of these experiences that Mrs. Woodward...
...Well's chief observation seems to be that its inhabitants are growing older. Insurance statistics are marshalled to prove that the span of life is daily lengthening and that soon it will be proper to send white flowers to the funeral of one who quite his life at the tender age of three score and ton. Roger Bacon in the thirteenth century announced to his rather hostile contempories that all that was necessary to outlive one's friends was a draught of essence of reindeer. Spaniards in the sixteenth century tramped their way to fever and death in the swamps...
...Will James, another Great Falls boy who worked with "cow and horse outfits" from a tender age, who knew Sculptor Russell well and who has "seen 'em all," meaning the work of cowboy sculptors, is still thoroughly alive. He keeps himself so by writing and illustrating the life he knows best. And after viewing the little casts in Cleveland, Cowboy Artist Will James said slowly: "Today's the first day I've ever seen a real cowboy ridin' a real cowpony...