Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale won the toss and chose to depend the sunny side to kick to Harvard. Sensational playing began by Rotan kicking to Wood, the Harvard captain. By a lateral Crickard proceeded 25 yards to the Yale goal line, being forced out on Yale's 5-yard line. In two successive plays Crickard and White failed to gain. On the fourth down, Wood attempted a short pass but landed untouched on the Yale end zone...
...third down Wood chose to kick and with the wind against him, the Harvard captain's punt went only 35 yards, giving Yale the ball on Harvard's 38-yard line as the period ended...
...Taft, his home is in the Indian Hill section and his golf is played at the best clubs. He went into the campaign as a lashing, slashing Wet. He declared that he always got all the liquor he wanted and that he intended to keep on drinking whenever he chose. He pleaded for votes to support President Hoover in the House, said the eyes of the nation were on his district. Confident of beating such a newcomer to politics, the Democrats put up a State Senator named David Lorbach. Nominee Lorbach, also a Wet, discredited his campaign by un necessarily...
When Lewis Mumford chose the period from 1865 to 1895, "The Brown Decades," as he calls them, as the subject of his most recent critical study, he did America a great service. Those years are, to most of us, the age of brownstone mansions and little else; the author of "Sticks and Stones" and "The Golden Day" in his new book shows us that things of real importance were happening underneath the drab exterior of the period...
...self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress (or author) to have three novels chosen by a book club. The others: The Time of Man (Book of the Month, October 1926); The Great Meadow (Literary Guild, March...