Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their hard work is expected to result in a telling victory over the Eli boat. Headwaiter Captain Jones was particularly enthusiastic today when a record of only nine credits was established and also because no cars were broken. Last years hash-slingers had had no mishaps of this sort until the day of the race with the semi professional Elis...
Governor Al Smith, it was believed, had chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt, his campaign manager, to nominate him?a sort of return compliment, since Governor Smith seconded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for Vice President in 1920. For a seconder of his nomination, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, sister of Lady Astor, was suggested...
...interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that insouciant and child-like Lothario, Sam Pepys, and Beaumarchais, of whom he remarks delightedly: "He may have been a bad lot; but he was evidently a good sort...
With this sort of support Spalding was tremendously effective, but even with mediocre backing he might have pulled through a winner. The Tigers filled the bases in the opening round on two hits and a pass, but failed to score. Dignan beat out a bunt in the fifth and stole second, where upon Spalding calmly caught him napping off the bag. These three hits and the four in the seventh were the only ones the Crimson twirler allowed...
Finally I think it is a pity that Mr. Chipman should disparage a scheme, about which he knows nothing, to promote an organization about which he appears to know less, before it has had any sort of trial here, while similar schemes have had valuable results elsewhere. DAVID P. KENNEDY...