Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead, as the sword of death hung like that of Damocles, last week, all Englishmen faced the future with the same confident thought: "Long live our King...
Pending the building of quarters on shore, Mr. Ford has sent to the Tapajoz River a large motor ship, Lake Ormoc, on which live the vanguard of his engineers, managers, experts. The Lake Ormoc, luxurious, has recreation rooms, a gymnasium, a hospital, a dentist, a tailor, a barber...
Readers who have smiled to see Mencken jeer, these five prosperous years in the green Mercurial jacket, at go-getter, hundred-percenter, live-wire, inspirational, egotistic pep stuff, were shocked to see him strut himself in such an inept business-getting manner. Their conclusion was that he has joined his own "hated Philisterei...
Football writers are sentimental artists who enjoy calling things what they are not. Thus they speak of the Princeton team as "Tigers," though no live, wild tiger has been seen near New Jersey for many millions of years and they refer to the team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...