Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who insist that in "the good old days football was more strenuous sport than today will find ample evidence to support such a view in this first description. Wrestling and tripping were permitted. It being recorded that "careful Terrence . . . . Ran to the Swain and caught his Arm behind; A dextrous Crook about his Leg he wound, And laid the Champion grov'ling on the Ground". As Mr. Williams who reviewed the poem for the London Outlook aptly said, Terrence "would probably be ordered off the field in these degenerate days". Yet these men of Soards and Lusk would probably...
...League and an Anglo-American Treaty in lien of the left bank of the Rhine. Then she was deserted, as she felt, by England and America and forced to depend for safety against a more powerful nation on her own unaided efforts. That, under such circumstances, she should insist on the literal execution of the Treaty even when that appears almost impossible, seems perfectly natural...
Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living might find some more appropriate way of honoring the dead than by carting the bones around...
...American people to insist upon the enactment of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill...
Pictures are drawn for the avid imaginations of magazine readers of tiny citizens absurdly caparisoned in velvet and plumes waiting daily for a director who requires the patter of little feet about the house to motivate his final clinch. Though there are laws which insist upon the education of movie children, we are led to believe that the education is scattered thinly through sessions before the blinding Kleig lights and interrupted by the hammering of carpenters and the yammering of stars...