Word: catches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your reviews of all kinds are splendid. Theatrical comment is frank and keen. Book reviews seem to catch the spirit of the author in a remarkable way. Occasionally your musical section provides a masterpiece of writing (e. g., "Bayreuth" in TIME of Aug. 3). The uncommon words you frequently use are invariably well chosen...
...there was ample coal on hand. Foolish public men have created for the American people a fool's paradise, and they are due for a fool's awakening. If the mines were to start tomorrow it is extremely unlikely, from present prospects, that production and distribution would catch up with fuel requirements before the coming of next spring...
...anything. Pittsburgh outfielders spread out. Canny Goslin bunted. Traynor hit a sacrifice fly. J. Harris, the lines deeper than ever in his sulky, sagging face, smashed a single along the ground to left field and brought in the run that won the game. Had it not been for a catch in the next inning that run might not have counted for so much. Gaunt Sam Rice caught a Pittsburgh fly that would surely have been a home run. Pressed against the right field fence he saw it over his shoulder and reached up. Pittsburgh players declared that it was impossible...
Sirs: It is something of a luxury to catch TIME a century behind the times, as it certainly is when it refers (Sept. 21 issue) to the Phi Beta Kappa as a secret. The society stopped klu-klukking a long time ago. Phi Beta Kappa (not P. B. K., for the character P is the Greek R) is transliterated Philosophia Biou Kubernetes, meaning "Philosophy is the guide of Me , this is not the Society's name, which I represented by the S. P. (Societas Philosophorum) on the keys...
...Brennan must have sighed a little in distress when Al Smith was driven off to catch a train back home, having made a speech, but not the speech that was to set the west wild...