Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance of class football is in its availability to every man in Harvard College. Vicarious experience of the game is now only a matter of choice, where once there was no other. Within reach of Everyman, and probably for the last time in his life, has been brought the hard, fine joy of playing football...
...Chief justice dropped easily back into the health-guarding routine which he follows when in Washington-up at 7 o'clock to be pummelled by a strong Swedish masseur; breakfast of hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor...
...vote for Mr. Hoover, although I disagree with his views about Prohibition. I think the country will come to a more intelligent way of dealing with that subject than is contained in the present laws, but that will probably be a slow process, and in the meantime the hard task of carrying on our free government with all its many difficulties and dangers must be performed by us. We need the very best man possible to be the head of that business...
...Hard it is to look at a Gothic building without a romanticizing ophthalmia, harder still to consider a Gothic personage. Francois Villon is generally conceived to have been a frisking, lyrical scapegrace, much in the manner of John Barrymore's cinema portrayal of The Beloved Rogue, an essentially harmless, buoyant, inspired fellow.* The just biographer must be proof against the delusive magic of medieval names and picaresque histories...
...other oriental Dutch cinchona tree plantations. The British have small plantations in India. The northern Andes, particularly in Ecuador, where the trees are native, now produce little of the bark. The Indians, who must chop their paths through jungles to reach the isolated cinchona groves, find the labor too hard for profit. Consequently the Dutch have been able to regulate the world cinchona bark and quinine trade very much as they pleased...