Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None save the door man of that synagog. He had read the newspapers. He knew a Jewess when he saw one, and a Princess, too. He communicated his fears to the Hague and court emissaries came...
Coady of Harvard was given a place at tackle on the basis of his showing toward the end of the season. His development at the start was retarded by an early autumn operation. An explanation of the choice of Beattie is superfluous to any one who saw the Harvard-Princeton game...
After the funeral ceremony, Lord Allenby, attired in a lounge suit, left the Residency in an automobile, which was followed by a troop of cavalry. His square-set jaw announced to those who saw him that he meant business; and those who had served with him in Palestine knew that when Lord Allenby means business something happens...
...matter of fact, I saw no unpleasant attitude of any sort expressed by any of the spectators that jammed the Stadium at Colombes on the afternoon, for example, when the American 400 yard relay team smashed a world record once, and then topped its own record a short time later; nor did I see, during the whole time I was in Paris, any sign of hostility or even of impatience (except, of course for the taxi bandits and their tips...
...none too clean-and yet this criticism of hostility at the Games is just another example of our self-righteousness. The newspapers stir us with accounts of how the gallant boys were coolly received by the French spectators; but they do not tell us some of the things I saw with my own eyes: a young Frenchman knocked deliberately and for no reason from his bicycle into three inches of black dust at Cherbourg; drunkenness on the Olympic train from Cherbourg to Paris; the stealing of three bottles of wine from an old peasant woman at the station at Caen...