Word: hob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Matthew Webb in 1875 and William Burgess in 1911 had demonstrated that if you really felt like it you could swim across the English Channel. So that was that. But when various women from the U. S., and fat bakers from the continent began playing hob with the time-record, Lord George Riddell, owner of News of the World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week...
...Hannibal, Mo., a certain Mrs. Laura Fraser, 90, brown of face and wrinkled, rested her bones on a camp stool and listened to the talk of a college scholar.* He was talking about worthless Samuel Clemens, who raised hob in Hannibal 80 years ago, then took to the river...
...Washington Post, he filled four large columns with the product of his pen-a product not so virulent as it was four years ago, but not without piquancy. His chief topic was the Japanese exclusion feature of the Immigration Act. Said he: "Responsibility for the faux pas that played hob with the pleasant relationship with Japan and the United States rests in about equal proportions upon the Secretary of State, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and, we re-(Continued on Page 24) (Continued from Page 20) gret to have to say in fairness to others...
...year in mind of the Senior who has got only so far as to deciding what general field he want s to enter, but has no leads to a job and does not care much where he starts in so long as he can believe that the hob he takes offers an opportunity for advancement towards the goal he has set for himself...
...present time, since it continues to limit its field of publication, and allows outside encroachments. Not every man is interested in such a scholarly work as "The Achievement of Greece," but such works, should they need support, ought to have a patron even at the expense of hob-nobbing with less aristocratic press-mates. There is no need on the other hand of encouraging incipient novelists or poets, but, as has been suggested by the Bulletin, more books of the type of President Lowell's "Public Opinion in War and Peace", which are finding presses elsewhere, might be profitably printed...