Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...response to a desire for some sort of international society manifested several years ago, there was founded a Cosmopolitan Club. This organization met in the phillips Brooks House at various times for the purposes of discussion upon subjects of international interest. Another organization, the International Club, died early in its infancy for lack of sufficient interest...
...good naturedly, but without palliation, stud- ies the activities of our twentieth century pensioners. One understands why the editor of a national magazine might reject It--but, if one has been a soldier, one realizes that Mr. Caxton speaks with authority. It is time that reminiscences of this sort were circulated, as it is to the Advocate's credit, and the discredit of American journalism at large, that what is the first of a series that will undoubtedly multiply with the years, makes its appearance under the familiar seals. The Advocate has, in fact, scooped the world...
...Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
Debunking has been of recent years the profitable pastime of biographers, and the relentless preoccupation of Bible scholars. Poaching on the preserves of both, a novelist now spins an entertaining yarn to debunk David, and a poet resorts to prose to do something of the sort for Moses...
...forest for the trees. The English speaking world will rise up as a man to thank him if he debunks the pseudo-sophisticate as thoroughly as he triumphed over the fight game. But Mr. Tunney really deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking the spice out of the intelligentsia. His fistic traditions should prompt him to pick on something his own size...