Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert La Frenière was the only one who succeeded in reaching the shore. When he was revived and informed that the others were certainly drowned, he told a story which made it appear that none of the great legends of the death of captains or of the heroism of priests surpassed the way in which Father Dubuc had conducted himself at the end of his picnic. After the explosion, said Albert La Frenière, Father Dubuc stood up in the stern of the boat and, while his clothes blazed brightly, lifted his crucifix and granted absolution...
...Straton promptly agreed to the debate, and made almost hourly suggestions, such as a return debate in St. Patrick's Cathedral, a continuation of the debate in a dozen southern cities, and that the largest Manhattan auditorium be selected in preference to Calvary Church. The Governor would have none of these. He desired merely to defend his reputation as a (sexually) right-thinking man before the congregation before which he believed he had been slandered by innuendo...
...bunkers, laying approaches dead to the pin and holing 15-foot putts. "The grand old lady of golf," they cried, with customary rudeness. Mr.s. Fox, not in the least embarrassed, went on playing her steady, irreproachable game. Sixteen years ago she became a grandmother. "Afternoon naps?" she said. "None of it for me." In 1923, when she was 62, Mrs. Fox played in the Belleair Heights, Fla., tournament. In the finals she had a medal score of 77 which beat famed Glenna Collett, her opponent...
Hopefully and generously contributed were these and many, many another product of the genius of U. S. industry. But no matter how satisfactory any or all of them may prove, Explorer Byrd has announced he will endorse none of them. Nor will he endorse the clothing designed, after months of experiment, for the expedition. U. S. underwear men went into conference at Troy (N. Y.) to evolve the airplane cloth garments for summer wear, the heavy wool underwear for winter...
...great many subjects in the present collection bristle with further grievances-none of them new; flimsy partitions in European hotels; doctors' persistence in dealing with symptoms rather than causes; England's refusal to adopt the efficient decimal system; U. S. film kings; man's servitude to alcohol; young authors (stream-of-consciousness school) who do not write like Mr. Bennett...