Word: warms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, Mr. Hearst's warm friends and admirers have assured him that he is the man of the hour and that he can count on them to create an issue if necessary to make him popular. Thus reassured, the "people's choice" has retired, to avoid influencing anybody in any way. This natural shrinking from publicity is strangely reminiscent of that memorial of his generosity--the vast Greek stadium given to a university in California. On the inside of this, in letters of green three feet high, it is said, is the inscription: "Given by William Randolph Hearst...
...unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm spring evening fully appreciated. In fact, any time during April or May the Bard might with justice quote himself, with a slight change of wording: "How many thousand of my poorest readers are at this hour asleep...
...Crimson will be handicapped by the absence of Captain Burden and Hovey, who will be unable to make the trip, and by the fact that the team has had no chance to practice during the recent warm spell. Gardner will take Hovey's position at left wing and should fill in well, while Lee, Leland, and Wilson will all be present as substitutes. The Second's strongest scoring possibility will rest in the work of Pratt and Butman, who have proven a good combination all season, while the responsibility of stopping the Andover attack will fall upon Dole...
...will be felt especially in America, where his efforts as Ambassador from Great Britain have brought about the best relations between the two countries. The University has a special cause for grief; Viscount Bryce has always been a loyal sympathizer with higher education in general, as well as a warm friend of Harvard. Those who were privileged to hear him speak at the Union last fall, were impressed not only with the broad scholarship of a man who could write two such authoritative works as his have become, at the wide interval of half a century; they were impressed also...
...watching the game in this vicarious manner i'snt so bad as the fellow who has got tickets and carfare to the real game would like to have it. You are in a warm room, where you can stretch your legs and regulate your remarks to the intensity of your emotions rather than to the sex of your neighbors. And as for thrills! "Dramatic suspense" was probably first used as a term in connection with this indoor sport...