Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find Leonard Merrick treating of miscegenation is something of a shock, like seeing an amiable young lepidopterist drop his butterfly net and go in for heavyweight pugilism...
President Coolidge is said to sit patiently by the vaults of the Treasury, watching the pennies, but his virtuous vigilance is at last rewarded from an unexpected quarter. A dime which he let drop unbeknown, has returned, but not to plague him. The grateful finder ate a hearty meal, went to work, probably as a street car conductor, for he says that he "now has many dimes". The accidental leavings of great men have a magical potency...
...drop of the curtain on the first act, I was surprised to see him calmly pick up a fresh copy of TIME and start in with the very first paragraph; he read during the intermission that ensued, without once stopping. This he repeated at the close of the second and third acts; and I found my curiosity so aroused that I leaned over to see each time what he was reading and how far he had gotten in the magazine. Before the end of the play he had gone half way through tl magazine, his companion quietly passing the time...
...delightful as the prospect is, especially those who condemn, rightfully or not, the semi-professional methods of collegiate athletics, it cannot become a real condition unless the grandstands drop a little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates...
...between Chicago's Buol' Mich' and the lake, in the Municipal Stadium, big Ralph Baker of Northwestern plunked over two drop-kicks. The goal he shot at, strangely enough, was fierce Notre Dame's, upon whom few men score. Also, the Baker punts, the Baker plunges, the whacking Baker tackles, brought wrinkles of worry and honest perspiration out upon the seldom-perturbed foreheads of Messrs. Stuhldreher. Crowley, Miller and Layden. The illustrious Messrs, won all right, 13 to 6, but not without pants and passes...