Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frankly I am worried. Football isn't the game it used to be when I last hung up my mud-stained moleskins in the Shemokin gym. What with bilateral passes and other sleight-of-hand tricks allowed, and with the goal-posts moved back so the near-sigthed old grad in Section 43 can see them, the game is changed so a forecaster hardly dares to speak...
...print a good letter from Mrs. Cecilia Graham Brown objecting to your printing "Shrewd" as the caption to an account of a dishonest act. On p. 24 of this same number you have another article of very much the same kind under the heading "Shrewd." This isn[t only the second time you have done it either. I remember its having happened before. It hurts me every time you do it. A dishonest action isn't "Shrewd...
...Nature produces her best efforts without regard to the audience. That explains the curious comedy sensitive people feel when dolts posturing on high mountains, or above deep chasms breathe: "Wonderful . . . isn't it glorious?" Somehow compliments seem a trifle impudent as well as totally irrelevant...
...trouble with this senatorial work is that there isn't enough to keep one busy. . . . We are all overpaid! I'd like to go back to railroading it; it is the most fascinating business in the world. Senators' vacations are too long! We waste too much time!" So said James Couzens, U. S. Senator from Michigan, interviewed last week during his 55th birthday. One-time freight-car checker, onetime Ford vice president, Senator Couzens is reputed to be the richest member of the U, S. Senate...
...stood up at the state beauty contest at Yankton, S. Dak., to make a speech on the subject of the "World's Fair." Said he: "I did some talking lately and got into trouble. Therefore I am going to play safe tonight. It's a fine evening, isn't it. I am sure no one can disagree with that statement tonight. It is certainly a fine evening, isn't it? Good-night...