Word: thud
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...futility of comparative scores should take the edge from our over-confidence, and when it is realized that Yale was without the services of her captain, we will be brought back to earth with a thud. Our team is a fighting aggregation, well grounded in the fundamentals. With the support of a loyal, but not overconfident student body, they will offer Yale and Princeton a sturdy battle. We face a stiff assignment; a double victory is not a sinecure...
...Flattened indistinct drums jarred the column forward. And every thud of them was a flash more of light let into the otherwise enternity of a peasant barmaid's obesity. . . Tum . . T-T. Tum, Tum, Tum. . Georgiette!. . . Georgiette...
...third act, on the whole very much better than the first, MacFarland's cry of "Sing Sing!"--so tragically does Mr. Craig give the line--takes one out of the farcical atmosphere and brings the curtain down with a cold thud...