Word: toms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poem Endynrion, called it "Cockney Poetry," advised him to go back "to plasters, pills and ointment boxes," prophesied that his bookseller would not a second time "venture £50 on anything he might write." These reviews were waiting for him when he returned to England to nurse his brother Tom who, already in the last stages of tuberculosis, died soon after...
...Dempsey the fearless, who has faced Carpentier, Firpo the "Argentine bull", and Tom Gibbons, the hardest hitter in the ring, without a qualm, lost his nerve. "Professor Dempsey? That's a hot one," he is reported to have said as he dismissed the crestfallen pedagogue...
...preferred composing her own chemises to hemming her own sonnets but did the latter to please Mrs. Aldwinkle; Miss Mary Thriplow, novelist, who wanted to be "simple and deep" and whose efforts to please made her, at last, a hypocrite even to hypocrisy; among the men of genius, Tom Cardan, three-bottle philosopher with a face that had two sides-one glowering, the other lifted in perpetual satire, as if stretched in infancy by an enormous monocle; Lord Hovenden who, for all his 21 years, pronounced the "th" in "thingumabob" as a "v," but had a 'wonderful physique...
Dick Turpin. Tom Mix displays his values in the present film with the aid of silk breeches, boots and a feathered hat He plays the famed bandit who robbed to help the poor. Beside robbing, he fights barehanded with the Bristol Bully, makes love, sticks up a bishop. A sense of comedy assists materially. Many critics noted that Tom Mix is acquiring agility, more resilient than that of Douglas Fairbanks...
...have said that we are getting too learned, and in support of that statement I can assert, on the word of Tom Hood, that `the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise.' I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of `The ignorance Club of Harvard College.' This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added...