Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Wills and plump Francis Hunter lost, as they did last year, the mixed doubles, to scampering Henri Cochet of France and Eileen Bennett of England (6-3, 6-2). Told that future English tournaments might prohibit her barelegged play, Miss Wills observed icily: "I did not discard stockings as a fad. I have done it to increase my speed." Her speed won the women's singles again. She trounced Eileen Bennett (6-2, 7-5) and Mme. Rene Mathieu, No. 1 Frenchwoman...
...this and other evidence is a real testimony to the power of Harvard's proudest boast its indifference. Not until the duty of the hour is finished will the apostles of case and balance discard their lone for a little light entertainment. The police blotters will tell the tale of the thoroughness of their final efforts. But the world has learned what emancipation means and has come to treat Harvard in such periods with the indifference with which Harvard itself has taught...
...last twenty-five years with delicate instruments in order to ascertain the extent of the Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals of truth for truth's sake as but another symptom of their wondrous merry mood...
...Lippmann who, as chief editorial writer of the morning World, holds forth under the same gold publishing dome as Mr. Bowers. Addressing some women Democrats in Manhattan last week, Mr. Lippmann said: "Great personalities, bold programs, big issues are a nuisance to the Republicans." He counseled Candidate Smith to discard the vague phrases urged upon him by his advisers and speak out on Prohibition. The Smith advisers promptly informed the public that the best way to oppose Prohibition was to enforce it rigidly...
When Patrick Henry with a magnificent gesture cried "Give me liberty, or give me death!", he never imagined that his descendants would fall so far from the heights of freedom as to discard their clothes of democracy for the court robe. By the hundred have the citizens of the land of the free bought audience with the successor of the tyrant of the colonies, plaguing high officials and besieging ambassadors to satisfy their vanity...