Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard Union, Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duluth Herald) seldom counts the change where his friend. Mayor Walker, is concerned. The Mayor spends more nights and mornings in the Block suite at the Ritz than he does in his personal bed on St. Luke's place...
...June Red Book magazine out last week. Said he: "Instead of cluttering up religion with a lot of things that do not belong to it, why doesn't the clergy teach people how to eat? ... The desire to drink is a false appetite . . . created in the first place, not by liquor, but by wrong combinations of food. . . . Part of the lesson toward physical fitness was the elimination of meat on Friday. The clergy developed that. Let it go ahead and finish...
...Stalled by the formality of the occasion, the cars were surrounded by a dense, jostling mass of working girls, tired shoppers and messenger boys, who scrambled like children at the Zoo for a peek at High Society before going home to tea. The great state show soon to take place inside the palace was not for them. This was their -show, and for three hours as the cars waited in line they made the most of it with pointed umbrellas and still more pointed comments...
...back in the game. McGrath doubled, went to third on Donaghy's single and home on a passed ball. Prior walked, Whitney fanned, and then Gilligan scored his captain from second with a sharp single. Batchelder, substitute for Dudley in the third, fanned, but Ticknor, who took Whitmore's place in the batting order when the latter went to the showers, knocked out a scratchy double, scoring Prior and Gilligan...
...affirmative, with a feminine speaker handling the rebuttal. This favor shown to hostesses shows a charming disregard of what experience has taught about the argumentative powers of women. The Harvard half, or fraction, of the impending debate has proved its searage, if nothing more, by putting itself in the place where there is a possibility, at least, of hearing the ladies protest too much...