Word: mats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...betters is edifying but to express one's own personality is more amusing. Ring Lardner can convulse It is readers with a tense drama, the scene of which is laid on a bath mat. Very few Englishmen, however, and very few Victorians would see any humor in Mr. Lardner. And similarly with Donald Ogden Stewart, Robert Benchley--although he is more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear...
...first few weeks of work, the University veterans will assist in coaching the Freshman candidates, after which time the two teams will meet each other frequently on the mat. Any members of the University who are interested in wrestling as a sport, and have no intention of trying for a regular position, are urged to report and work out with the regulars...
...Rudolph Valentino) wrote out and mailed to the Chicago Tribune editor a formal note. He said that he infinitely regretted that American statutes made illegal the honorable and historic duello. But he felt happy to be able to offer his correspondent the choice of boxing ring or wrestling mat to "prove in typically American fashion...
...surveyed his work and found it good, as did many another. Soon he had delivered an appropriate speech (see p. 5), hastened away. Many persons invited to this ceremony tucked away as curiosities their engraved invitations, each of which was pasted upon a lumpy segment of printer's stereotype mat...
...stop? I'm sure that I don't know. So long as matters continue as at present, with the press in the power of its big advertisers, and the advertisers full of the popular notions, the principle of free speech have their shoulders to the mat. Educating the public may help, if only the public may be reached...