Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oscar fund Tom Mix. As he said later when grilled by the state's attorney, "If it isn't Tom Mix, who is it?" For sure enough there was either Will Rogers or Tom Mix riding the famous Tony and swinging the famous rope and telling fast ones while he shot buffaloes from nickles thrown by an Indian hanging in mid-air by his toes from the shoulders of a bandit. "Whee", quoth my roommate, "Whee". So then and there I decided to take him to commencement...
...contrast is clear with one added point. As in America, so at Oxford and Cambridge, athletics are countenanced by the authorities, but they are not, as in America, either given largely to the direction of sporting interests or taken officially under the wing of the authorities. They are supervised much as the individual students are supervised, namely, by men interested in them. The faculty members interested are men who in their other capacities live among the students eat with them, and are friends and advisers...
...provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements sifted in. One fails to find in Saltacres either character or situation satisfyingly delineated; and it is insufficient solace to turn to the desolate animation worn by the features of nature...
Beyond its incongruity and spiciness, however. "Cleopatra's Private Diary" is totally lacking in either originality of sustaining vigor. It is truly une gaucherie...
...whose existence English custom could well speak and from whose mouths her lesser and provincial lore could proceed in a more complete and interesting manner. The setting and the material must have opened to Mr. Reid many opportunities for elaboration and diversification of his tale. He evidently lacked either the requisite desire, daring, or technique...