Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly looked like a good proposition. Life on beautiful Cape Sable was one long holiday and here it was being handed to him for eternity-swimming and boating, good food and plenty to drink, handsome, leggy girls and no questions asked. But John Wallis turned it down cold; he ran away from it straight into a private hell of his own choosing...
...busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running the war badly, she rushed off to Washington to tell him so. Satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was really the man for the job, she directed her energies into good works for distressed Negro children. At 66, Spinster Liz started the nation's first public kindergarten. She was past 80 when she went to Washington to lobby for mistreated Indians, just short of 90 when she died, her mind busy with women's emancipation and machinery for world peace...
...letters, Author Tharp fills the married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited...
...times, Harvard looked very good; other times it was only fair. Nevertheless, it was encouraging to whip a League toe by almost 20 points...
Crimson runners turned in good times sweeping the 40 yard dash, the 600 yard; the 1000 yard and the 1 1/2 mile runs...