Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Construction next week at Pinehurst, N. C., Herbert Clark Hoover sent out for a microphone and recording apparatus; read into the microphone and onto a phonograph record the speech he had prepared to read at Pinehurst. No Cabinet member or other high U. S. official ever did such a thing before...
...wait for Ole Anderson to come in. At five minutes to seven they decide he is not coming in. Nick ? the cook ? goes to see Anderson at his house. He says: " 'They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper.' 'There isn't any thing I can do about it.' 'Maybe it was just a bluff.' 'No, it ain't just a bluff.' " Then Nick goes back to the restaurant. " 'I'm going to get out of this town,' Nick said. 'I can't stand to think about him waiting in the room and knowing...
...sports. "The horse show is a real tribute to sport," said Bishop Manning. "It exemplifies to the highest degree the spirit which is responsible for the Sportsmen's Bay in the Cathedral. I feel that the Sportsmen's Bay is one of the most significant and interesting things in the Cathedral. It surely is a very great thing to have in the greatest house of worship in our land that magnificent and conspicuous symbol of the relationship of clean and wholesome sport in all its forms to life and to religion." Sports represented in the Sportsmen...
...election pledge is a sacred thing to me," writes the Mayor of Chicago, referring to that resolution to defend the youth of Chicago from the propaganda of King George which helped Mr. Thompson to win his present exalted position. It is satisfying to see that he is fully as good as his word, if not better. He is not satisfied with attacking the superintendent of schools, who seems to be practically a member of the British Secret Service but he has appointed Mr. U. J. Hermann, a well known sportsman, to search every history book in the public library...
Evolution is a great thing. The monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...