Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many men owe him much. He has spent his years giving help, not asking favors. About the only thing he ever asked was to be named for Vice President in 1920. He was hurt when his friends replied then with a mere gesture. Hence his "no stalking horse" proviso this time...
...story goes that when a band of Cheyenne savages swooped upon the peaceful Kaw village 1868, small Charles Curtis, aged 8, stole bravely past the enemy's pickets at nightfall and travelled 60 miles to Topeka for help. Be that as it may, he lived in Topeka from then on, a small boy with such a passion for horses that he gained fame as a jockey on Midwestern tracks long before he finished high school...
Meanwhile, the hero manufacturers (the coaches) are hard at work. No one of them makes a hero purposely; they make good football players who will help to win games. Too bright a hero steals most of the glory from his college; all of it from his coach. Though stars burn out quickly, the quieter light of coaches burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding...
...material of ensuing chapters can be deduced from their titles: "God Help the South," "Dives into Quackery," "The Pedagogy of Sex," "Appendix from Moronia." In all of them, accurate as they may be, important as they may seem, one has the picture of steaming, sweating Author Mencken, his face red from beer and the light of destructive enthusiasm, beating out penny absurdities to the amazement of an audience composed almost entirely of what he refers to as "booboisie...
...grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among the mushroom intelligentsia at whom their weapons are pointed; but the admiration is so open-mouthed and so self-conscious that the implied self-criticism is forgotten. Two highly articulate, intelligent, bellicose writers cannot help being in a measure valuable. But it would be difficult to prove that Messrs. Mencken & Nathan, in their tremendous excitement, have done very much more than amuse the few and increase the already overwhelming conceit of the many...