Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldest sport in the history of man, and the first sport a person turns to in his life is track--from the minute one is born until one dies, track is a daily occupation for every man. Not everyone is born with a football under his arm, nor is every man able to pull an oar or bat baseballs out of the yard, but 99 44-100 per cent of the world is born with two legs that were intended for hard usage...
...name is not on the register of those fit to be invited to parties of that nature, and intend to show you that I deeply resent your discourtesy. Why, I wouldn't think of going now! Not if you sent every darned instructor in the institution to me in person. I won't go near the place, and I hope your old party is a total failure, and everybody is sorry they went and nobody has a good time! Now I've said my say, and I don't care how much you try to plead with...
...question of whether the student should express his opinion at all, regardless of his academic qualifications to an opinion. For education is something apart from mere erudition, or age, or title. It is a process. And if anyone is qualified to appraise and value that process it is the person most intimately involved...
...service will be in commission between Manhattan and London (3,500 miles) over a combination of land lines and wireless waves. The cost will be $25 a minute, with a refund in case static blurs the conversation. Since transatlantic cable rates are 22c a word, this means that the person who can distinctly speak more than 115 words a minute will save money by the new way. But he must talk with a low, steady tone, else his voice will be blurred when carried across the chain of hair-adjusted transmitting machines. Trained elocutionists might be hired...
...egotism whose one sinew is self-respect, that Author Ford's central figure stands. When the War came, Christopher Tietjens of Groby, ponderous, gentle, clumsy, omniscient, was already under the triply complicated strain of an abnormally faithless wife, financial difficulties and his love for Valentine Wannop, a young person of much head and spirit. In Some Do Not (1924) he resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More...