Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely recovered from an infected knee which has been bothering him this fall, and it is improbable that he will see more than a few minutes of action today. Whether the coaches want to develop two nearly equal backfields as they did last year, and will for this reason keep French out of the first combination after he is fully recovered, is a question that it is impossible to answer at present...
...What will happen to jazz one hundred years from now?", he resumed in answer to a query. "Who Knows? It depends entirely on the public. It will never take the form of opera, for that is an art of the past. The only reason a man takes his wife to the opera is to give her a chance to show off her jewels and clothes...
When asked why so many American authors were emigrating to England to live, Mr. Aiken replied that the reason lay in the fact that England is a more intensely civilized country than the United States. "The background of England is infinitely richer," Mr. Aiken went on; "English society is cultured from top to bottom. There is more opportunity for the novelist to draw on human consciousness. The English country-side particularly appeals to the author. In America everything is rough, ready, uncouth, forlorn, and dilapidated. There is a feeling that American civilization is only temporary, to which England...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth could see no possible reason for a special sitting of the House over whose doings he is ring master...
...dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu (1,400 miles over...