Word: wile
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...with a temerity as notable as her talent, Actress Anderson (Macbeth, The Three Sisters) brought those emotions spectacularly out into the open. She flung aside both classic control and realistic restraint. She played Medea half in the grand manner, half in the Grand Guignol manner; she used every wile of body and face, every art of voice and gesture, to produce something possibly mixed or impure-but definitely, undeniably overwhelming...
...slammed the portal shut once and for all. Nowadays, it is a common sight to see pale Freshmen pressing their noses between the shiny black bars, their eyes all agoggle at the lush greenery of the yard within. Many is the discouraged student who finally recrosses Massachusetts Avenue, to wile away the hours in Felix's, and later is found run over behind. Widener with a copy of the Daily worker in his already cold hand. True, a few shrewder individuals have been able to crash through to the inner regions, but it has only been after untold waiting...
...recesses of third story boudoirs eyed the crimson-wearers' unique 7-1 defense with critical eye until the hard charging line roared into the girls' backfield. With their wits about the, however, the swivel hipped runners were, as always, hard to lay a hand on and managed to wile their way touchdownward. "Skidmore'll be a pushover," one bedungareed spectator was heard to remark...
Pete Harwood cleared 12 feet 6 inches in the pole vault, although 12 feet would have been sufficient. Owen Torrey, of Harvard took second, clearing the bar at 11:6, wile the Crimson's Howard and the Purple's Calabrese tied for third a 11 feet. The broad jump, held underneath the sands, was won by Benesch of Rhode Island, who lept 20 feet, 11 1/3 inches to beat out Kennett by an inch and an eighth. Natale of State was third and Wyman fourth, Harvard's only point winning position in the event...
...that destiny, if need be, Chiang Kai-shek would fight again, with every wile and gun at his command...