Word: bent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is true of Eliot, the national leader, is not true of Eliot, the man. Boston, Cambridge, and the Yard are filled with memories of splendid, dead Olympians. One more has been added to them, one whose slight, bent figure need dispute the gravel walk with none of them, yet one whose personal charm and living quality will become with each succeeding year less a tangible memory of living flesh and blood. It is safe to say that time will add to the lustre and the glory of his fame. It is equally sure that as a personal character...
...believe that most of the profitable historical research in this country is done by collegiate holders of the Ph.D. degree, older men, who were trained to research, and who continue to follow their bent, in spite of many discouragements. These men are constantly producing valuable discoveries, and I think that there is enough historical inquiry made under the conditions that now prevail...
...sorrel mare which stood sopping amid a shouting throng. Astride the mare sat a big man in an old and faded uniform. The rain trickled from the drooping ends of his mustache. Now and then he soiled his white gloves by patting the mare's neck. Sometimes he bent down to whisper in her ear and she whinnied in reply...
When dwellers on Mt. Auburn Street awoke yesterday morning to their customary activities, they were startied by the sight of the little en-caged elm, that grew so debonaire in front of the Lampoon's front steps, hanging over its bars, bent and broken...
...Bent and careworn, the Earl said with quiet fervor...