Word: bend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reaction, concomitant with post-war existence, has forced the leaders of contemporary thought further from sanity than they would readily admit. In refusing to bend toward any cognizance of that element in human nature upon which war thrives, these intellectuals lean backwards until personal equilibrium is the result merely of their crowded position...
There was born this week of a mother in South Bend, home of clocks, twins, as the barker would say, "in human flesh", joined in that integral fashion hitherto solely suggestive of Siamese ancestry. The parents are Americans. So there is no longer need to think that, though she excels in sports and morality and feminine jankles, America is without Siamese twins. That day, to use the words of the successful reformer is gone forever...
...complications make this less attractive to the patriot and one hundred per cent national publicity agent than casual glance could suggest. For South Bend is alter all but one city in one part of the country. What hope then is there for all the other cities in all the other parts? Though one can boast of local morals and another of local anesthetics. South Bend alone can boast of twins joined together in infancy, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see with your own eyes. So an era of provincial inferiority complexes awaits those cities who see no future...
...them, they are joined in a worse union than matrimony could ever effect. They are linked like human sausages and await the consumption of multiple morons who pay to see demonstrations of that omnipotent nonchalance which some people worship. There was born this week of a mother in South Bend, home of clocks, twins...
...ideal way to stage the intercollegiate quarter-mile event would be on a course without a bend, but such a plan is impracticable. The only scheme of conducting the event in lanes is fair to the competitors and yet not entirely satisfactory because the man-to-man element is diminished by the staggered starting marks. So long as the race is conducted under present conditions there is bound to be some jockeying, but I think it is to the credit of the I.C.A.A.A.A. competitors that the championship races down through the years have been fought in clean, manly fashion...