Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power beat on any August day. It has various inhabitants, varying in number according to the season. The main products are milk and wise cracks of the vintage of the gay nineties. The milk is very good. The most original feature of the landscape is the cemetery in which lie those two sires of even wortheir stock, Mr. Root and Mr. Beer--lie so near in fact that the names on their granite shafts make sense when read from left to right as one crosses the hill. Here I once wandered with an old lady of uncertain step and wavering...
...unconscious boy's head was twisted so that his right temple lay uppermost. Two quick, accurate, preplanned incisions. A thin-lined six-inch triangle showed faintly. This the surgeon peeled back and let the flap lie out of the way. Then into the skull bone with the saw. Slow, careful rasping. A six-inch triangle lay loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass...
...treat newspapers and newspapermen as impersonal bits of merchandise in the manner of his late contemporary, Publisher Munsey. A publisher of the highest order, he remained always a newspaperman himself, sticking to the platform that he wrote for the first issue of the Penny Press: "We shall tell no lies about persons or policies for love, malice or money ... or fight, lie or wrangle.... The newspaper should simply present all the facts...
...real job in producing a successful football team next year doesn't lie with me, or the other coaches who will be appointed later, but with you men who are going to make up the team," was Horween's opening remark on next season's program. "I'll be here to tell you everything I know and to give you all the help I can, but it is you who are going to actually play the games, and it is with you that the ultimate success of the season must rest. I am proud to come to Harvard to coach...
...sooner has the gay countess moved the sympathies of some, the antipathies of others--and herself from Ellis Island than that rather noisy and erstwhile citizen of Philadelphia, Smedley Butler, returns to the printed page. His morals are far above those of the countess. She could not brook a lie; he cannot--brook a drink. And when, with courtesy and the savoir faire of the "old school" a gentleman and colonel serves cocktails at a dinner party in his honor, Smedley blushes and rushes to the duty of having him reprimanded by the higher powers. All this...