Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football. I think it would help the game if you would publish it and advise all college papers to copy. No relief can be obtained through the Rules Committee. No active football man can be brought to think in regard to fumbling, except that it is too great a crime to escape with anything but the severest penalty...
...crime of football is the rule giving the ball to the opponents if recovered by them, for the next rush. The ball has been stopped and that is all; the fumble is no reason for interrupting the series of downs, or innings. The abject fear of a fumble interrupting the series is the reason for all the bad features of play enumerated, and for almost all injuries...
...action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet sixteen. The play is a comedy of incidents in the life of the Wheeler family; Bobble is burdened with the dark crime of having kissed the housemaid in "a moment of sensuosity," as he tragically confesses, while passionately in love with the governess, Miss Pinney,--"the most spiritual-minded woman in the world"; Cora is obstinately devoted to an elderly grasswidower who uses her to shield his own unwelcome love for Miss Pinney...
...House Committee on Naval Affairs to beware the "naval holiday." He thinks our entrance into the League is uncertain, yet outside of it we are beset with dangers. We must have the largest navy, and to consider a five-year check or construction is a "blunder worse than a crime." The best thing to do is to vote the necessary $600,000,000 and trust in Mr. Daniels...
...safest thing for New York to do is to forget the crime wave idea, now that it has successfully aroused the slow-witted public. Its existence is not nearly so important as the fact that the police cannot handle what crime there is, which is plenty enough. Commissioner Enright has not denied the many charges of incompetence. If there has been favoritism or dishonesty in any form, this ought far more to be in the public mind than the "to be, or not to be" of a crime wave which may serve well as a means to reform...