Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue p. 24 under SPORT your correspondent was not very observant or informed. Meadow Lark Fearnot is a lady beagle not a gentleman and it is most doubtful if she would have "enjoyed biting a small girl who sat" etc., as whatever their faults may be it is hard to find more docile creatures than beagles. I speak from experience, having a pack of twelve couples (one of which got "best beagle-under 13" at this show...
...Hard by, the Great Smoky Mountains park, a 327,000-acre swath of Blue Ridge territory, six to ten miles wide, between Front Royal and Waynesboro in Virginia, is to be secured as the Shenandoah National park. Last week, the $4,000,000 fund necessary for this project was reported within $100,000 of completion...
Newsgatherers asked later what the two had talked about. "About three minutes," grinned the Mayor. He said President Coolidge was "a peach;" Postmaster General New, "all to the good;" Attorney General Sargent, "pretty hard-boiled;" Secretary Mellon, "one of the most delightful personalities I ever met. I can see why people who know him like Mr. Mellon. I liked him first rate...
Those gentlemen who find it amusing or profitable to judge each race by an absolute standard, and call one people art-loving, another frivolous, a third conservative--and such persons include most authors, from newspaper correspondents to popular biographers--have had rather a hard task in re-cutting and pasting together post-war Germany to make it fit into its pigeon-hole. In the war years, and previous to them, it was easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite...
Such is the case of the amateur tennis players, a case that is hard to defend on any grounds, since it is not at all clear why those who are good at one thing must shun it as a visible means of support, relying on the power of their names for assistance in what they do wretchedly. Love of the game is often cited as the motive for this mesalliance, but it is a love without restraint that advocates a March training camp, a love of the Davis Cup rather than the game for which it stands...