Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...player to take part in the half hour punting session allotted each afternoon at the beginning of practice. The Harvard leader, who surprised the crowd in the Stadium by taking over the kicking assignment unheralded and averaging better than 41 yards from the line of scrimmage has apparently lost none of the skill he displayed a year ago, and is fairly certain to keep the Crimson well in the running during the remainder of the season. French was in uniform yesterday, spending the bulk of the afternoon practicing passes with Putnam and Guarnaccia...
Martha Washington. "In any case, the meeting with Martha was a blessing to him [Washington]. He was none of your intellectuals himself, no bookworm. He had gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...
Hundreds of thousands of silly little pieces of paper, oblong, square, three-cornered, printed in faded colors, smudged with ink marks, none of them bigger than a square inch or so, none of them very beautiful, and none of them the least use in the world. Such rubbish, said a woman with an umbrella, eyeing disdainfully a red and black oblong all by itself in a glass case ten times too large for it, such rubbish might as well be burned, and better. She turned away and, crossing a large white granite hall, found a taxi that would take...
...Genoa, Neb., high-school girls complained that their assembly room was chilly, whereupon the school authorities decreed that girls from the sixth grade up must wear skirts long enough to cover their knees, walking or sitting. Hazel O'Brien, 16, spunky, would have none of the rule. Relatives backed her and a legal action hung upon the school board's next move. Said one of Hazel O'Brien's less haughty schoolmates: "We'll look like the girls of the horse-and-buggy days. The boys will be drifting to other towns for dates...
...GREAT AMERICAN ASS-Anonymous-Brentano's ($3.50) Of all autobiographies, anonymous ones arouse the highest expecta tions. These, one feels, can afford to let themselves go. On this score none will be disappointed with "Roy Bradley's" freakish self-history. He is a man on the borderline of genius and insanity, not far (though far enough) removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised...