Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare that a Harvard team is outplayed in every department of the game. Yet on Saturday Dartmouth was so powerful as to smother any attempted offense of the Crimson, and when on the defense, with the lone exception of Hubbard's superb playing, the Crimson forwards were dwarfted by the Green line, which found little trouble in opening holes for their backs and even swinging into the interference...
Especially enthusiastic was the audience over the rendering of the Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome". Of this version, one critic said, "The music exhales languors, weaves repetitions, sensuously rustles and prickles. When Strauss would have it a smother of sensuality in the full, thick, velvet voices of horns and violoncellos; when he would have his wood-winds bite as with the little white teeth of Salome in the old chronicles; when the dance ends in a whirr of trills, high and shrill, darting and piercing, the conductor was heightening voice to the composer and as quick, sure-fingered...
...unpalatable food upon the people, the Senator will be their doctor. He has already prescribed the antidote--one strong La Follette speech after every Harding meal. And to make sure that the remedy reaches all, he will follow in the President's wake,--or at a distance sufficient to smother any whispers that his itinerary was planned with malice aforethought...
...indicate that fires are undesirable, the other precaution is merely inviting trouble. There is one ancient fire-extinguisher on the second floor and two or three more in the basement. It is not evident how one is expected to stop a fire. Possibly the original idea was to smother it with overcoats...
...unable to play, were probably heavy factors in this result. For Wingate's substitute showed none of they captain's individual performance, and ran the team with poor generalship. His constant use of one unbalanced formation with Ellis around the end contributed largely to the Yearling's ability to smother the Academy offence during the latter part of the game...