Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking considerable pains to present the Roman Catholic Church in the most favorable light to your readers: witness the reprint of the Catholic ads from The New York Times and the statement twice in one column that the late Cardinal Gibbons was Baltimore's most loved man. If this sort of thing is a policy of TIME, I will have to cancel my subscription. I get all the religious propaganda I want in The Churchman...
Subsequent cables informed the world that Wales is now learning to play the "bandoleon." Again cronies of the Prince supplied lacking data: "He used to play the ukulele; now he prefers the bandoleon. It's an educated sort of concertina-howls worse than a saxophone...
Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...
...notices a certain amount of pique in American press comment that Europe has got together without America's assistance and worked out some sort of an agreement. It does not fit in with the preconceived notion on the other side of the Atlantic of a hate-torn Europe, which could only be reconciled through the pious efforts of the United States...
...Coolidge himself is an estimable man, who personally would be glad to make some sort of a move, but he is timid, with his ear always to the ground, afraid of public opinion, which, when watching European affairs, is completely uninstructed in America. So, it seems, that Europe need not expect much from America except the usual duns about debts and loans on profitable terms to Americans...