Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this girl who lived in Greenwich Village with wide innocent eyes. One, a publicity man and therefore a cynic, realized that she was "a charming woman without the faintest conception of her own limitations-damned dangerous." The other, an engineer and therefore an idealist, thought her "like a spearhead of beauty in a difficult world." Certainly she made it difficult for him: ran off with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice...
Then came the men; four U. S. men in white, four Englishmen in red and blue. They scampered across the turf on their ponies, hitting the ball for practice. Soon they lined up. J. Watson Webb, No. 1 and spearhead of the U. S. attack nearest the ball; a little behind him Thomas Hitchcock Jr., and Malcolm Stevenson; behind them and nearer the white goal posts where the magic carpet ends Devereux Milburn, grey veteran of every International match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert...