Word: love
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wagner, Prelude and Love-Death from "Tristan and Isolde...
...Wagner, Prelude and Love-Death from "Tristan...
...with horrified amazement and with an overwhelming sense of incredulity that we have read of the proposed abolishment of "love" from the game of tennis. No more is that soft-sounding epithet to be applied to one's opponent or oneself amid the thuds of racquet against ball. One-in, two-out, three-all replace the dulcet tones of fifteen-love, and love-thirty, and the dignified basso of dence...
Another vital change in the code is that which discards entirely the old method of scoring. Instead of the old way, it provides a 1-2-3 method that will make such a score as 15-love only a memory. The proposed change reads as follows...
...going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken in defiance of the clear precept, "Love thine enemies----" Even his brother's failure to post in time a letter containing money for the mortgage leaves him with no sense of bitterness...