Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short couplet, with its promise of a thrilling performance, is the difficult thing to fulfill. With President Coolidge unavailable, Mr. Butler and his committeemen had soon to determine-whether they began determining last week or not until the National Committee routine meeting in December-which one of several able and willing mahouts would be most likely to take the elephant skywards...
...close friends, he voiced regret at being obliged to leave his Minneapolis home for Washington. He has grown fond of the Minnikahda Golf Club*; where he has often swung along the course at a business-like clip, as likely as not telling jokes about his Scotch ancestors. "The only thing my Scotch blood doesn't make me close about is my golf score. I'm not at all stingy about that. If I shoot 100, I feel I'm playing an excellent game for me. I love golf." He likes duck shooting too but has no time...
...splendid almost as God. To Preacher Beecher, Theodore Tilton's idolatry was comforting; even more comforting was the idolatry of Elizabeth Tilton. Often he would go to see this lady. Some times her husband was present; more, often not. At last Elizabeth confessed to Theodore a monstrous thing. Theodore Tilton, afterwards, was not so ready to bow down to Henry Ward Beecher; finally, after resentments had smouldered and gathered for five years, he brought suit against the clergyman for alienation of his wife's affection...
...concensus of opinion, however among all the Vermont players was that the rest of the line did not nearly measure up to that of Columbia, whom the invaders had played the week before, and that the University line played more like "a bunch of school kids" than any thing else. "Pratt and Turner," as one of the brawny Vermonters remarked, "weren't nearly what they were cracked up to be. Pratt looked pretty good but he played too high on the defense...
...important thing for the present is, however, that amidst all the hurry and rush of the times, there has been one man,--President Lowell,--who has not been too busy to provide for a possible future return to the art of living and eating when all good trenchermen will gather around the ancestral plate...