Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the god of football reform has grown bloated, frenzied, and irrational it is not unpleasant to make a pilgrimage to his defeated deity--the gargantuan idol with feet of clay. Thus an October afternoon spent witnessing an old and popular sport is an effective antidote to an over-dose of over-emphasis; illusions concerning the importance of football games have been partially removed and the result is that the logical attitude towards the game--that of sanity, that which minimizes both defeats and victories--is once more practicable. Saturday afternoons are seen in a more normal light: as occasions...
Jeers. "We respectfully suggest that the last sweet dose of love and kisses be ladled out to Mr. Ford's new-found friends by leaving the name Ford off the new car. Let it be called instead, let us say, the Solomon Six, or the Abraham Straight-8"?New York Daily News...
...husband (Lionel Atwill) will always love her. The husband suspects less tender motives. The big scene looks as if it were pitching for tragedy. But that impulse cracks in the middle of the last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell even more pungent...
Intellectual vagrants who are disinclined to labor but who must have their daily dose of mental stimulus may be interested in the following...
...that time the pure zeal of a reformer burned in Mr. Macfadden. He was but seven years away from his native Missouri. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he had built himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique; he was out to make the world safe for healthy bodies. This zeal has never wholly died. The numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom as can be and have never been ashamed to pose as their father's prize exhibits. Nevertheless, it was inevitable that this...