Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the Freshman and Second University tennis teams will see action this afternoon, the former meeting Andover on Divinity Courts at 3 o'clock, and the latter travelling to Southboro to take on the St. Mark's netmen...
...severe regulation of late that he scarcely dares kiss his wife or buy a shirt without consulting the latest edict on that subject issued by his benevolent government, now impersonated by Mussolini. But for a man with the capacity for government possessed by that dictator, human beings and their actions do not offer sufficient scope for action. From them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will be expected to co-operate and fines will...
...less of the player's court to the opponent's return); repeated admonitions to practice "for is it not so in everything-the more one learns the more one realizes there is still more to learn?"; and 32 drawings by the author of various tennis stars in action. These drawings are reminiscent of photographs one has seen of the stars in question, and have therefore caught realistic and characteristic motion...
...HOUSTON, COLOSSUS IN BUCKSKIN-George Creel-Cosmopolitan ($3). The annexation of Texas was so much a matter of politics that the real issues, violent and blood-spattered, are dimmed. George Creel* brings them to light through the colorful story of Sam Houston, dreamer, drunkard, man of action. A youth, in Tennessee, he showed dangerous scholastic tendencies, poring over Pope's Iliad, so his brothers set him clerking in the village store. Seeking refuge with the Cherokees, Sam announced in grandiloquent terms worthy of his master, Pope, that he preferred measuring deer tracks to tape; and later married a squaw...
...story of "Old San Jacinto" and his friends-Old Hickory, Austin, Bowie (of the knife)-is inherently so dramatic that his present biographer's insistence upon long documentary quotations only retards the action. Equitable, Author Creel prints interesting letters and records defaming his hero, but precedes them with such convincing evidence of Sam Houston's bravery and devoted patriotism, that one recognizes in the abuse merely the jealousies that accumulate around any dynamic personality...