Word: fan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempts to attack the integrity of Judge Landis' motives in becoming the supreme arbiter of professional baseball have brought up some very important problems of policy. That Landis, an enthusiastic "fan", is sincere in his desire to make organized baseball a clean sport, few will deny: but there is also little doubt that the large salary paid him by the major leagues was a great inducement at the time that he decided to accept the position. Such an increase of a Federal judge's salary, small enough in these days when the necessary expenses involved for the holder of such...
...quotation for the day from Oscar, printed at the head of this column, reminds us that in reviewing "Lady Windermere's Fan" at the Copley, a Boston critic styled Wilde a "master phrasemonger." The play-wright has little in the matter of phrasing over the Harvard professor who lectured on H. G. Wells as "the arch-rabbit of literature...