Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alice then a mere alter ego to Stein? Hemingway implied that Toklas at times henpecked Stein, described her in The Moveable Feast as a "frightening" person who on one occasion said things to Stein that were "too bad to hear"; Alice cordially hated him in return. Actually, as Thornton Wilder tells it, "Alice was merely the dragon protecting the treasure." She had enough intuition to recognize Gertrude Stein's talent and made a life work out of nourishing it. She was not just a factotum for Gertrude. She frequently made changes in Stein's writings, and her brevity...
Parrot and Pete Mueller set up Johnson's well aimed flip from a sharp angle to Thornton's right...
...minutes later, junkman Pete Walinger, who is second in goals only to Kent Parrot without having been part of a regular line all season, scored his seventh goal to even matters. Skating across the crease, Waldinger deflected a pass from Tag Demment behind him and past Thornton. Otness also got an assist...
...next 13 minutes were pathetic. Harvard's attack systematically disintegrated at the blue line and didn't produce a single shot even when the Huskies were a man down. (Thornton recorded 3 saves for the entire period.) The only effective checking was inappropriately directed at the Northeastern goalie...
With 28 seconds remaining, Smith sent a bouncing 30-foot shot past Thornton and Harvard hopes flickered. The Crimson mounted a last drive, and a pass from Otness gave Smith a shot at the goal's upper left corner. It went wide, and the buzzer sounded a 5-4 defeat...