Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good news, Harvard had to announce some bad. Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph. D., Eaton professor of government since 1910 and a Harvard faculty member since 1883, terminated his long teaching career by resigning to devote his age (he is 71) to writing and editing. Of this sort of thing he has already done a lot, being' one of the most celebrated of U. S. historians, past or present. His most extensive single editorial production was The American Nation in 28 volumes. He has written on a score of phases of U. S. history, from The Formation of the Union...
...been a very sad thing ... to see the nuns driven out and the convent looted. . . . Thirty years ago I founded my convent; what is there left for me? . . . We taught the young girls to do good works among the poor; I had 200 under my rule. . . . No one can imagine the horrors that have befallen our Church. It has been a very sad thing. . . . Father Victor Fabre was wounded in the neck. For a week he was in prison, then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray...
...lined up. Whistle. Plop! The kickoff. In ten minutes "Red" Grange made four touchdowns. The Michigan spectators felt sickish. More kickoffs. Touchdowns for this team, for that. Loud and long the cheers. Here and there someone on the Michigan stands grimaced. His stomach griped him. Pork is a heavy thing to eat, burdensome when one has to yell like thunder. Finally the game ended. Illinois 39; Michigan 14. The latter's supporters were sick. Some were to be sicker still...
...flicked his putter, just so, and his ball found its way across 70 feet of turf into the cup. Jones had back at him in a few minutes with a 30-footer, which Hagen parried instantly from seven paces ? a "half" in birdy 2's. This sort of thing continued until lunch was served, and Hagen...
...grossest piece of effrontery for this unknown man from Texas, whom no one ever heard of, to seek to show that Woodrow Wilson was a puppet. Of all the brazen effrontery, this is the worst. He is guilty of the basest ingratitude." Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House absolutely proved, and that is the old French proverb that no man is ever a hero to his valet." He referred to Colonel House as "this little man that no one ever would have heard of but for his boot-licking proclivities...