Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary attainments, and to convey to such of your readers as may be interested in her communication the impression that her literary knowledge is widespread and that she is a very earnest reader of a great many interesting papers, but just why a lady of this sort should include Punch in her literary pursuits is beyond my comprehension, as her letter conveys very clearly that she is a person absolutely devoid of a sense of humor. I only hope that your correspondent is not endeavoring to enter the arena as a propagandist and bring any misunderstanding between the good feeling...
...Arizona, New Mexico and Utah plateaux the Navaho Indians constitute a sort of peasantry, crowding into low, flat adobe shacks. Water is scarce and sanitation crude. That explains why so many Navahos have contracted trachoma, highly contagious eye disease. The eyelids become granulated and sticky. The victim squints, often becomes blind. Already one out of every four or five Indians has trachoma. Every third child has it, and at the reservation school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., every other pupil suffers. Aroused, Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Indian Bureau, Department of the Interior, last week ordered the Fort Defiance school...
...Whampoa Military Academy in which the officers of the new Cantonese army received their military and political training-for they have been shown no less the use of the sword than how to propagandize their troops into a frenzy of Cantonese loyalty. Chiang Kaishek, a sort of super-Whampoa Cadet, is content to wear an austere cotton shirt and sips hot water with his frugal meals, while Chang Tso-lin banquets among his dancing girls. From the cold north of Manchuria and Peking comes the barbaric Mogul to drive back if he can the Cadet who has conquered half China...
...Clark colleagues were downright skeptics, then opened the conference with a paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement. Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement as an effort "to support Faith by actual, provable fact." He, of course, was concerned chiefly with the movement. For his own claim upon public consideration the creator of "Sherlock Holmes" mentioned his medical training and the fact "that as a public man of affairs...
...other been unable to come to the polls at all. A Dartmouth undergraduate coming down to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving lamented that he had not been able to get down before to vote for Wilson, only to discover that he had voted for Vare after all. Cases of this sort are multiplying as the investigation of the Committee of Seventy continues...