Word: aloneâ
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...evidence at football games. A few are always present, of course, sandwiched between a pair of bulky persons in coonskins, or throned in the cheering section, where they regard with intent, disdainful faces the puerile behavior of their older brothers. Most of them, however, attend these contests in spirit alone???which partly accounts for their devotion to football. Pigskin heroes can assume mythical proportions for eyes that have never beheld them. James Thorpe, the Indian, was a coppery comet, leaping in seven-league strides over a field of endless goal-lines; the right toe of good Charles Brickley stiffened into...
...Crime alone???the industry which, with meatpacking, is responsible for the wide reputation of his native city?he could not understand. When the report came to his paper of the bandits who raided the Drake hotel, (TIME, Aug. 10, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he said: "Poor fellows...