Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarterback. He gets in every play as no other President I have ever seen does. He follows the ball like one possessed. He handles it with fingers that never slip. His generalship is never caught asleep. He eats, drinks, lives the game. In the whole list of Presidents there isn't another quarter like...
...probably it isn't so very dreadful after all, except as showing that boys will be boys--and men, men. It has been said in refutation of the "Golden Age" theory that the first man born into the world killed the second. After that he probably formed a club, and excluded his children, who probably formed separate clubs and excluded everybody they could think of. All of which finally led to the Tower of Babel--the paradise of clubs where nobody had to talk to anybody because nobody spoke the same language...
...There isn't room for both of us," she announced. "Friend rodent is determined to stay and seems to have the College on his side, for they won't do anything to get rid of him. So I'm going to leave in a hurry...
...fight. But he has to sell the old Norquay homestead to do it, which it took five generations of doughty Norquays to put together. Andy Hall, one of those old philosophers without whom no logging camp is complete, has a theory which explains the title, if nothing else. It isn't important. The important things are Roderick's splendid moral character and the way he applies it to business and love...
...After the second ballot Boss Brennan of Illinois withdrew Chicago's bid out of friendship for Boss Murphy (who remained secluded in the Shoreham three blocks away). On the third ballot Manhattan was chosen with 57 votes out of 103. Somebody called: "Speech, Swope! Speech! Speech!" Swope rose: "This isn't the last time the Democratic Convention . is coming to New York. You're going to like New York so well that the Convention will come to New York from now on? every four years." That night there was another dinner ?a dinner of rejoicing at the Shoreham. Boss...