Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There ensued an interval in which everyone asked: "What will Britannia say to this?" There came the answer of British newspaperdom: "It is almost incredible that a British officer should have done such a thing . . . that a man in public life should choose the hour when peace and amity were dawning at Locarno, to revive one of the most unsavory stories...
...Westminster Gazette: "This is a disgusting thing to be reminded of when we are endeavoring to forget the madness which the War engendered...
...berated the noted sculptor, C. S. Jagger, for having produced "a monument which will be interpreted as a glorification of war." Sir Ian Hamilton, onetime (1901-02) Chief-of-Staff to Lord Kitchener, spoke for many when he said, quoting the late Marquis Curzon: "To my mind, the ugliest thing in the world is a gun, with one exception only-the howitzer. The howitzer resembles a toad squatting and ready to spit fire out of its mouth. Nothing more hideous could be conceived...
Critics of intercollegiate football are fond of stressing the commercialism that the enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears...
...pays entrance money may utter disconnected howls and yells during a thrilling end run, just as he would during a fast double play, but even the antics of the best cheerleader the club owners can find will scarcely remove his natural repugnance to bawling rhythmic nonsense. That kind of thing is all well enough for the Youngsters, but hard on the middle aged lungs and lanynx...