Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last they met, the editors do not say. But from their choices of new authors in other fields, it seems safe to say that the policy throughout was: "The name-of-the-moment, come what...
...Americanisms to be despised? Henry Louis Mencken, defining them, says "The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubberneck, ticket-scalper, lameduck, pork-barrel, bootlegger, steamroller (in its political sense). Such exhilarating novelties are produced in the U. S. every day, and large numbers of them come into universal use, and gradually take on literary dignity. They are opposed violently, but they prevail...
...first three sets, of which Tilden won one, it looked as if Hunter's dream might come true. But then it seemed that if there was any contest between Tilden's feelings for Hunter and his desire to win, the latter won. The score of the whole match was 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 and Tilden's name was written for the seventh time, like Richard D. Sears's and William A. Larned's, upon the championship...
...time times he had ever "compromised," "shirked," "chucked it"-all the time he had let himself yield to soft, narcotic impulses in preference to harder, more tonic impulses-all the softness he had ever let form within himself-all that had waited till then to come back on him. That had been the one Voice; the mean hateful...
...ever steeled himself-ever kept "in training," so to speak, though with nothing to gain but the satisfaction-ever driven himself by power of will and for a principle-all those thousand and one intangible little credits he had ever put by (and completely forgotten)-all that had come to life for him to draw upon to life to give him a balance enough on the right side to tide him over. That had been the second Voice...