Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientific poker player, made it a rule never to "come in" on less than "three of a kind", except very occasionally on a deliberate bluff. This "great American pastime" has been compared to politics, but incidents in which an opponent has been scared off are very rare indeed, and, needless to say, have never occurred in a presidential election. As matters now stand, political gamesters of both parties are admitting that the Republicans have a disadvantage, because they are not in a position to win on a bluff. And in a "show-down", too, the results are dubious at best...
...most inveterate "fan" will stop to examine the posters before entering a moving-picture theatre, but the occasional "movie-goers" exhibit far greater care in their selections. They even peruse the papers to assure themselves of a congenial evening's entertainment, needless to say, their interests differ widely: followers of William S. Hart are bored by a modern "problem play"; advocates of Burton Holmes contemptuously turn up their noses at lovely lingerie, and Mark Sennet enthusiasts fall asleep rather than see a hoop-skirt. Theatre-owners, realizing that it is all a matter of taste, and that the fewer discontented...
...last score of years, American law-makers have multiplied petty regulations with such unrestricted ardor that the wonder is that any statute is obeyed without compulsion. Examples of foolish, needless legislation are plentiful. In South Carolina, the playing of pool or billiards has been forbidden. The prohibition of checkers, of cards, of tiddledy-winks may well follow. Arkansas has been considering a bill abolishing bathing in the waters of the state, and minutely describing the sort of garments appropriate for public exercise. Arkansas athletes will appear in trunks extending below the knees, and short-sleeved shirts, and memories...
...common, but the object of their most violent hatred is the man who tells them the unsavory truth about themselves. In a play now appearing in Boston, the hero, a New York minister who says what he thinks; is ejected from office for his attitude towards his rich parishioners. Needless to say the latters' guilty consciences are responsible for the deed, but the chances are, even if his enemies were as innocent as they pretend to be, that he would have been expelled in any case. No man likes to be slandered, truthfully or otherwise...
...that stone as it struck Walden's placid surface were the first irradiations of an idea that has not yet reached Columbia College. The strange and beautiful idea of living one's life for its own sake-of doing only the things one likes to do, and shunning the needless complexity of organized relations-is so foreign to these halls that one might more trustingly hope for privacy on a merry go-round than seek it on Morningside Heights. . . . Our day is a restless scrimmage, a succession, of caucuses, conferences. luncheons, public appearances and group entertainments. "Activity" and "Duty...