Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...impossible to say anything out of the ordinary about this book. That is a confession which ought to damn it from the start. In reviewing so many of these profound studies of adolescence it has become irksome to repeat the only catch words which can be repeated--realism, frankness, and so on. It has finally dawned upon me that the story of a man's emotional strivings and strugglings are bound to be all these things. They make good reading but do not last, for any other true story, confession, or what you will, has the same appeal...
Neither coach has announced definitely the starting batteries for today. For Harvard, Devens will probably take the mound with Batchelder catching. The Elis will start either Jennison, Rudd, or Taylor in the box with Aldrich or Maine behind...
...Start-in-life: law clerk...
...Epsom Downs. Silver Flare delayed them at the start, wheeling and breaking, but all at once the 17 were in a line and then the line was broken, closing to the rail, with one horse pulling out in front. It was Diolite, the favorite, with Ballyferris after him. When they had made the long run up the hill. Rustom Pasha, the Aga Khan's first-string horse, moved out, passed the tiring Diolite and led the way down toward Tattenham Corner. Then Diolite was close again neck & neck with Rustom Pasha at the turn, with Iliad third as they...
...Wagon Mound, N. M., it was Friday evening, Sabbath eve for Charles Geist, tailor, and Joe Lowenthal, haberdasher, Orthodox Jews of Paterson, N. J. They were motoring to Los Angeles where they hoped to start in business. Their cult forbids traveling on the Sabbath. They stopped over at Wagon Mound. That Friday night Charles Geist dreamed that he was dead. So moved was he that next morning he broke another Sabbath law. He wrote his wife Gussie of his morbid dream. A few hours later a tornado swept through Wagon Mound, killed...