Word: afield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Bend, Ind., hearing that the city zoo wanted a pair of bald eagles, two South Benders went afield and obtained two large, bald birds from a farmer named MacMillan. A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird. A zoologist helped Farmer MacMillan recover his $13 by identifying the National Birds as buzzards...
...handclasp for all comers. Secretary Hyde is without pretense. When he is asked a question about farming which he cannot answer he says: "I don't know. That's not reticence. It's ignorance." Once a Missouri legislator was haranguing him about cattle and beef. The talk wandered endlessly afield until Governor Hyde cut in with: "I'd like more meat and less wind. if it's all the same...
...paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS I am a sort of a cynical cuss, Mellow and mildly sarcastic. My sensibilities hardly will muss Any more; they...
...have never permitted any ecclesiastical despot* to control my thought or conduct. But I am for the Prohibition law and for a thorough inquiry to see if it can be enforced and, if not, what are the remedies. . . . But both the President and his Commission have gone as far afield as possible. . . . The investigation will not be through in one year or in two. Why, the stupendous task of investigating all lawlessness and of a readjustment of all judicial procedure is just as impossible of accomplishment in my lifetime or in the President's tenure of office as anything...
Timely hitting made up for Harvard miscues afield as the University team sent Hollstrom, Hanoverian mound ace, home with his first defeat of the season. Howard Whitmore '29, in the box for the Crimson, remained cool under fire, allowing only eight scattered blows. Two circuit clouts, by Captain G. E. Donaghy '29 and Stokes Indian first sacker respectively, furnished the fire works as the opposing hurlers fought out a closely-contested pitcher's duel...