Word: midways
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Lovett came to the University of Chicago when the Midway was little more than a swampy sandlot. At Harvard he had stood at the head of his class, remained as an instructor after graduating. During his 43 years at the University of Chicago, Lovett joined everything he was invited to join except the Socialist Party. He was a leader of such starry-eyed, leftish setups as the League for Industrial Democracy and the League of American Writers. For one year he was editor of the Dial, a famed fortnightly magazine whose staff included Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen...
Beneath her brass-blonde chignon, Dorothy Lawlor's busy brain had cased all the angles. She had been married at 15, divorced at 19. She had two kids, no man, and a flock of debts. Now she was 27, and checking hats in Johnny Shields's Midway Inn, Valley Stream, Long Island (pronounced "Long Guyland...
...London, the seventh Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the hawk-nosed original, dutifully opened an exhibition of modern sculpture with an appropriate speech, but midway raised his own gallinaceous nose and broke out: "And now about modern sculpture-I really cannot make out what it is all about...
Saturday's loss to the Tigers followed a second unsuccessful attempt to play Yale. After rain had postponed the match from Wednesday to Friday, a deluge poured down at New Haven as the match was reaching its midway mark. Yale held a 2 to 0 lead, but Crimson players were ahead in three of the other seven matches...
...visitors held a 5 to 1 lead midway in the seventh but the Crimson scored three times in its half of the inning and then went on to tally the tying run in the eighth and the winning run in the ninth...