Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...
...Lamont '16 has given us a very pretty little thumb nail sketch of Japanese scenes in "Nikko, the Beautiful." There is a fragrant freshness in that two-page description, something of oriental color which fairly gives us a whiff of the distinctive odor of the bambo. Immediately one is reminded of Lafcadio Hearn. It is a pity that Mr. Lamont did not build his description about one of those many fascinating plots that claim Japan as their birthplace...
...whiff from the west comes to us by way of contrast in Mr. Jackson's "Crossed Wires." The plot is worked out with considerable ingenuity. The plains lingo seems natural, and if the tale proceeds along well recognized cowboy lines--it is a cowboy story...
...Stadium rinks yesterday afternoon and one was defaulted. The results were as follows: the Hired Girls defeated the Cardinals, 2 to 1; The Little Jeffs defeated the Chuck-a-pucks, 2 to 1; the Seven Sutherland Sisters defeated the Neverhomes, 6 to 0; the Decoys defeated the Whiff-Whaffs by default; the Hot Stuffs defeated the Seven Shooters, 4 to 0; the Whiffenpoofs defeated the Alfalfas...
...played yesterday afternoon, the Arterial Artilleries defeating the Blue Jays 6 to 1. The following six games are scheduled for today on the two rinks in the Stadium: at 2.45 o'clock, Seven Shooters vs. Hot Stuffs, Cardinals vs. Hired Girls; at 3.15 o'clock, Whiffenpoofs vs. Alfalfas, Whiff-Whaffs vs. Decoys; at 3.45 o'clock, Seven Sutherland Sisters vs. Neverhomes, Little Jeffs vs. Chuck-a-pucks. The games postponed from yesterday will be played tomorrow...