Word: laconicism
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EMERSON made his Journals his "savings-bank" for his ideas, his impressions of his contemporaries, and of the world as he saw it, as well as for his record of the events of his life. The Journals as published, however, fill ten volumes, and many a reader who has found...
The Judge's Husband. After a long, successful tour, William Hodge is back on Broadway starring in his own play. A Connecticut woman Justice henpecks Mr. Hodge, makes him scrub, wash dishes. Hence, naturally, an unexplained visit to Manhattan to investigate an escapade of his turbulent daughter causes suspicion...
In 1906, at the age of 17, Jay Gould won the national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all...
"Oh! I prefer them in the balcony", was her laconic reply.
No consideration other than dollars and cents was mentioned in despatches stating that the University of Dubuque (la.) would discontinue intercollegiate athletic activities "for at least several years," permitting students to compete only among themselves, at home. Holders of the so-called cultural brief against modern college athletics rejoiced. But...