Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired world pricks up its drooping ears when it hears news of this sort, and breathes a prayer of gratitude. In the midst of turmoil and confusion, there is, then, one nation that has a care for its food, one gathering of experts who say save the universe from dyspepsia. And hearing, the world turns again to its endless labors, confident that come what may, it will at least be well...
...Democratic Party has recently been identifying itself to such an extent with departures of one sort and another from all the old true American ideas and ideals that it has lost for the time being the confidence of the country, which it had enjoyed so long as it was true to its time-honored principles and the leadership of Thomas Jefferson and Grover Cleveland...
...succeed which has followed him through life. Having written many books in spare hours, having become known as a writer of stories of law, lawyers, crime, its detection and of humor, he found himself at middle age determined to break with his habits of life and to become a sort of American Galsworthy. He wrote, therefore, His Children's Children,* which caught critical and public fancy. He has followed it with several other books, among them, The Needle's Eye† and Marriage à la Mode, about to appear serially...
...test of this sort is undeniably interesting and always entertaining, but about all it proves in the testee is the extent of his education. Any person who has received a reasonably thorough drill in the fundamental qualities of good verse, according to the standards of his day, should perform creditably. The present generation, for example, has been trained to recognize the terseness and restraint that makes good free verse without destroying its poetic connotation. It can therefore assert with confidence that Carl Sandberg did not write such lines...
...plan of a similar nature was in force to a certain extent last winter, but it was not as sweeping as the present scheme, and it was purely optional. It was patronized regularly by comparatively few men. Something of the same sort has been done at Princeton and Yale. Football coaches have almost unanimously endorsed the value of boxing for football...