Word: albatross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...
...They fall out after the D. S. hears her say her prayers in her nightgown one evening, and Dorothy goes off and learns about Life from a California trouper. Next she encounters a polo team and Charley Breene in particular. Charley hangs himself around her neck like the albatross, and she never does...
...knowledge is made in the precious coin of time. Few things in college are more difficult than the budgeting of knowledge and self appraisal. Two who have reached extreme conclusions about outside activity may sit nearby in classes, each a living reproach of the other, and each with an albatross about his own neck. What is amiable weakness in a Senior is a fault in them. They have dared to dogmatize, where to dogmatize is intellectually fatal...
...great white albatross soared round and round a South Atlantic ship. For days it followed, never lighting, snatching small fish from the waves, offal from the ship's wake. Sailors caught the albatross and aerodonetists studied its 17-ft. wingspread, its 4-ft., 25-lb. body. The albatross is the largest and strongest of seabirds, and scientists have tried to learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British...
...fiction rather than the awkward and improbable stays of legend. At the head of each chapter Author Russell has scribbled lines from The Ancient Mariner, and these, in their wild fire, seem to illuminate the career of another careless sailor, pursued by a fate more stubborn than an albatross. Hitherto the life of John Paul Jones has been clothed in mystery or history-book nonsense. Now, when the ancient long-respected knights and statesmen are drawn, quartered and made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire, it has pleased Author Russell to remember one of the old giants...