Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tackling practice tried tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...
...district from which only one representative is permitted.* Walter S. McLucas of Kansas City declined. The President then appointed 45-year-old Roy A. Young, head of the Minneapolis reserve bank.š As hundreds of telegrams of congratulation poured on to his desk, the new appointee sat down to answer each one personally. "I consider it a great compliment the President of the United States has paid me. I hope he never will regret the confidence he has placed in me." To close friends, he voiced regret at being obliged to leave his Minneapolis home for Washington. He has grown...
...were asking for. . . . I'm sorry, I apologize. I . . . ." She said good-by to Roddy and let Martin think she would marry him. Then she broke her engagement and went to France, whither Julian followed her to ask her to be his mistress. This, too, was a dusty answer to what she desired. In England she went to meet Jennifer again, but Jennifer, always an unsure idol, failed the meeting. Then Judith was rid at last of the weakness, the futile obsession of dependence upon other people. She had nobody now except herself; and that was best...
...kind of novel that might have been written by Keats. . . ." The untruth of this statement is valuable as an indication of the flustered enthusiasm this book has caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity. Moreover Author Lehmann writes with a sensitive and fine precision, she betrays in herself an exquisite perception of subtleties in her characters-most marked when...
...DUSTY ANSWER-Rosamond Lehmann-Henry Holt...