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Chauncey is not a name with a particularly manly sound, and Boston "townies" were loud with their falsetto derision of this newcomer in the Harvard backfield. But however funny the name of Chauncey-or the name of Marion Adolphus Cheek, for that matter-may have been to pool-parlor nickel-spinners, the weaker sisters of the Harvard eleven would have fared badly had not Chauncey's toe sent a ball over the crossbar. Score: Harvard 3, Brown...
...blue green about a foot wide with a red tail of red fire 30 feet long," and as "a ball of silver twice the size of a croquet, with a gold tail three yards long." According to an artist sketching on the Ipswich marshes, the meteor landed with a loud thud only a short distance away. A naval officer at Squantum, however, reported that he saw the meteor fall in the middle of Dorchester...
...When Herr Schiele was forced by the Nationalists to resign from the Cabinet, as a protest against the Locarno treaties, he broke down and sobbed on bidding us, his fellow ministers, goodbye. Previously, when asked if he approved of the Locarno Pacts, he answered with a loud and joyous...
...Amid loud cheers he announced that "stern measures" would be taken against those responsible for the plot, and against the Opposition. Then he asked the Fascists to promise that they would not take reprisals into their own hands. Roared the crowd: "No! Revenge! Justice! We shall bring you Zaniboni's head...
These books are published in the name of municipal individualism. With spectacular adjectival vehemence, the authors shout into the thickening ears of young U. S. cities, loud reminders of the peculiar zest and color of their rambunctious settler days, laying special emphasis on downright iniquitous conduct that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...