Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime toplofty Commissioner Moses got himself into another row. He wrote another letter, this time in answer to the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, which had criticized him for denying soldiers free golf privileges at Bethpage State Park. Excerpt: "Experience has shown that most of the servicemen who play golf are officers, who can afford a reasonable fee, and that the average . . . doughboy regards golf as a sport of toffs* and gentlemen and doesn't know a divot from an Attic tomb inscription...
Whether or not this situation was the cause, or whether it was some undisclosed tragedy, we will never know, but "To Her" has been succeeded by a torrent of verse on every conceivable subject and a few inconceivable ones. To illustrate, the following is an excerpt from a "Bolba Special" intitled REPOSE...
...children are running wild and we have no way of checking them except by proper leadership. Delinquency is on the upgrade and we must stop it. To do this we need your help." This is an excerpt from the text of a letter received at Phillips Brooks House yesterday. It was signed by Miss Catherine Orr, headworker at the Trinity Neighborhood House...
...following excerpt (from a letter written to my great uncle) may prove of interest as an "echo" from another...
...Beverly Hills (Calif.) Citizen; now a second lieutenant with a tank destroyer battalion at Camp Hood, Tex. To beat labor-baiting Leland M. Ford, Democrat Rogers made only one recorded speech, which was broadcast four times. While in the Army, he continued to write a column for his paper. Excerpt from last week's: "The first time I cranked and fired the 75 ... I couldn't hit my hat. Cranking the blooming thing is like patting your head and rubbing your stomach. ... But after a little practice I got better ... at the finish...