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...About $30,000,000 is included for the completion of one battleship, two aeroplane carriers, six scout cruisers, thirteen submarines, three fleet submarines, one gunboat, two destroyer tenders, one submarine tender and one repair ship, which were under construction...
...Excellency to receive him favorably and to accept from him the assurance of the high regard and friendship entertained for Your Excellency and the Government and People of Liberia by the Government and People of the United States, and the sincere felicitations which they, and I, in their name, tender to Your Excellency on this auspicious occasion...
...time winter activities have not been neglected. The hockey team is struggling in an unexpected slump. In the first game of the Yale series last Saturday, the Crimson forwards seldom penetrated even the outer bulwarks of the Bulldog defense, and the three Yale shots which escaped the University goal tender's attention proved enough to set the Blue's undertaker dirge reverberating in the rafters of the Arena. Again on Wednesday, a smooth functioning B. A. A. sextet rained shots on the University cage, and piled up an 8 to 1 victory. Hodder's absence from play, on account...
...know of no other American poet who has succeeded so subtly in combining real sentiment with the vernacular. His poems in slang have been at once beautiful, tender, well written. He has intuitive knowledge of the boy and girl of shop and street, their trials, their loves. If his play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
...authors collect dialect expressions?" The answer is, I think, usually, that they don't. Ernest Poole once told me that now that the saloon had vanished as a place in which to overhear conversations, the bus top was the ideal place for garnering a store of epithets, tender and vituperative. That may be; but I am practically certain that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy of his ex-pressions?...