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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of the Geneva athletics practiced yesterday without stockings and it is possible they will discard stockings for today's game. They showed a lot of pep as they ran through signals, and if size is any indication of strength they will be a formidable outfit today...
...practice of American government this doctrine of human equality has done a lot of harm. By its implications it has afforded good soil for the growth of the spoils system and the practice of rotation in office, two of the most noxious weeds in the garden of American politics. If all citizens are equaly competent to govern their fellow men, why should we endeavor to choose among them on the basis of their special qualifications? If all citizens are endowed with the same political capacity, why let any one stay in office very long? Our reluctance to make...
...bandit leader twirled his revolver. "I, me, myself," he said, "will shoot the whole lot of you if you do not drive at once to Cuernavaca and give this note to the military commandant there. It is a short note. It reads: 'If we are pursued we will shoot our prisoner...
...afloat" had been offered the privilege of meeting the ship at Los Angeles next month, at the cost of missing three weeks' work. To stay-at-home students, this "cost" sounded farcical. Who would do any studying, any work, on a joyride to 35 foreign countries with a lot of professors who had signed up for nice soft berths? But stay-at-homes knew not whereat they snorted. Some weeks ago the seagoers were obliged to file their choice of .studies and many a bundle handled by grumbling roustabouts on the Holland-American pier last week, was heavy with...
...Jazz, in fact, is on the horns of a dilemma. You cannot have music without composers and at present jazz has no composers in the full sense of the term. The brains of the whole lot of them put together would not fill the lining of Johann Strauss...