Word: warms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aided by the favorable weather yesterday, the relay teams which were picked on Wednesday ran for the first time as teams. Special attention was paid to the passing of the baton, and running the corners. The Freshmen showed noticeable improvement in both these features, and if the warm weather continues for the next week they should develop into a winning team by the time of the B. A. A. games...
Plans for the coming week are very indefinite. If the warm weather continues, there will be no opportunity for practice, since the Freshmen are entirely dependent on the outdoor Charlesbank Rinks. A trip to Pomfret for a game on Wednesday afternoon has been proposed but has not yet been ratified by the College Office. The Connecticut school has a fair team with its entire forward line back from last year...
After all, it is probably pleasanter to sit by the warm fire of a cold winter's evening, and imagine one's self lolling on the "paepae" of some picturesque Marquesan hut, listening to the chatter of Exploding Eggs, the native valet, and Chief Seventh Man Who Is So Angry He Wallows in The Mud, than it would be to explore in the flesh those far-away places, to broll under the tropic sun, flee from the shark and the enraged swordlish, or suffer the stings of the "nones" in deserted Haapa, where the last dregs of the Typee race...
...play, presented by Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin during Easter week, 1919, was very enthusiastically received, and the London press was warm in its commendation of Lady Gregory's masterful treatment of a very difficult subject...
...infinite variety of life in the face of their own pet aversions and pet hobbies. Like so many of these James had his deformities. And among these were a restlessness, a seclusion from earthy contacts, and an incessant dissatisfaction, which, even in a novelist, do not go toward a warm reception...