Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages are now when you read them over: 'The Idea, the Motive, the Story. The Idea, the Motive, the Story. The Idea, the Motive, the Story." I was so tired that I had to stop in the middle, go off to p. 26 for a little relief and come back later to finish...
...meal at which President Coolidge received Mr. Lorimer been dinner instead of breakfast, a prediction by Mayor Thompson would have come true. In 1910, just prior to Mr. Lorimer's ejection from the Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there...
...autumn apoplexy. As they shrank back to normal, the mills that they used to turn, the power plants they used to keep humming, emerged from the flood covered with muck. Winter began to shut down and the muck froze. Much New England industry was crippled for months to come...
...Hemingway's style: he goes quickly to seize the barest vital essentials, presenting them in the most concise, dram- atic manner. This directness, this simplicity is necessary to the author's purpose, the presentation of reality. What man, we may ask, with more complicated literary machinery, has ever come so near that goal? Mr. Hemingway finds life a very crude, a very various thing and so he represents it as he finds it, unpolished by the artifices of a more conventional style...
Success in the Harvard-Yale football series has come to each team in cycles, but Fortune has smiled more often on the Blue than on the Crimson. Of the 45 games played, Yale has won 26, Harvard 13, and six have been tied...