Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vaudeville audiences, connoisseurs of good juggling, have long agreed that Japanese and seals possess unrivaled coordination of mind, eye and muscle. Last week at South Vancouver, B. C., one K. Kanaka, Japanese golfer, smiled broadly, having brought new honors to his race. Playing over the Canadian Pacific's Langara course he had established what was considered a record; had made two "holes-in-one" in a single round...
...sympathy is meant to go to crippled, homely, honest Elena. But Elena is more shrewish than shrewd. Her experiments with new religions are wan and woeful. The backgrounds -Manhattan, Italy, unnamed places -are nebulously uninteresting, taking the edge off such intensity as Authoress MacConnell and her characters may possess. A ripe theme and much good characterization go to waste through fireless cooking...
...Captain Wright wrote: "Mr. Gladstone . . . founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity : in pub lic to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...passage referred to : "Mr. Gladstone . . . [i. e. Queen Victoria's great prime minister] founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...certain Captain Wright in his "Portraits and Criticisms" asserts that "Mr. Gladstone...founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity, in public to speak the language of the highest and the strictest principles, and in private to pursue and possess any sort of woman." Gladstone's sons have retorted by telling Captain Wright that he is a liar; Captain Wright has delivered the last counter-check in suing the Gladstone. All in all it is a nice mess, and "the tight little isle" is much more wrought up about...