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Squaring off for match play, Hunter deftly eliminated Evans. Jones (open titleholder), Cochran of Wichita Falls, Herron, Fownes, Ouimet, von Elm, Gardner did not falter. Sweetser swamped Seckel, a Chicagoan. Philadelphians were pleased because Marston advanced by scotching Simpson of Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Amateur Golf | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...life-like picture of the present youthful generation in full bloom--has shown the flapper and her partner what they really are (or think they are)--has interested and amused a large percent of the careworn American Public; and for such things, should be thanked. Even if he does falter noticeably in his latest writings and his most strenuous admirers cannot but admit that he does the censure should fall "more in sorrow than in anger...

Author: By Burke BOYCE G., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 10/21/1922 | See Source »

...most obvious defect in the show is the utter lack of substantial music. Tunes there are in plenty, but none carries a rhythm that lends itself to memory; several start out promisingly enough, but after the first few bars, falter and lapse into inconsequential airs. Notwithstanding this handicap, however, which is quite offset by a wealth of Billy Van comedy, the piece provides a non-brain taxing, enjoyable evening. And as for the French joke on the red card,--something not new but done in a different way,--it must be heard to be appreciated...

Author: By H. S. V., | Title: William Rock Installs His Revue of 1920 at the Wilbur | 1/27/1921 | See Source »

...their possessions and trying to bring some sort of order out of great chaos, to make some sort of a home out of great devastation, to find, some kind of living in a land destroyed,--working bravely, looking cheerfully at a scene which would cause the stoutest to falter, and then pitching in--that I think is one of the saddest sights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NO ONE WILL KICK IF BOCHE CAN BE KEPT ON THE MOVE" | 11/8/1918 | See Source »

...service of the destroyers on the deep, to drive rivets in the biting blasts of zero weather, to subscribe to Liberty Bonds, to give to the Red Cross and to count nothing of any value except the winning of the war. The man who thinks that Americans may falter is either a traitor at heart or ignorant of the spirit that dominates the American people in this hour. Men of money are coming forward, most of them in a way that is most generous. Shipbuilders and owners of munition plants are showing their patriotism. The spirit of America is that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/22/1918 | See Source »

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