Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birds and flowers?never think it. It moves with elaborate unconcern through the adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these murderers, such an innocuous naivete about their mental processes, that much may be forgiven them. Stories, graphic, succinct, powerful, well...
...British Open Golf Champion, Arthur G. Havers, defeated Gene Sarazen, onetime U. S. Open Champion, 5 up and 4 to play. Such a thing has never been done except by Walter Hagen...
...moral or patriotic crime, but simply the acceptance of the apparent facts of the situation. Yet many leading business men seem to feel it necessary to appear optimistic, and to preach lengthy and rather shallow sermons on having faith in the country's future. This sort of thing does much more harm than good...
...said Major Moore. "It would be perfectly right for Tilden and Richards to write and even get paid for it if the articles were unsigned. As matters stand new it is not so much what is in their articles as who wrote them. That gives them prominence. A similar thing happened with Ouimet, former open golf champion, who started to run a gold shop, but was forced to close it in order to remain as amateur. The various associations which govern these sports however, have not been at all consistent in their policy...
...about time for decent law-abiding Americans to volunteer to go without a drink. There was nothing much the matter, as far as I ever heard, about the quality or healthful properties of the tea on King George's ships in 1775, but for the principle of the thing a man was socially ostrcized if he drank it. There is a principle of the thing today that ought soon to take its place so that such a socially influential body as the Associated Harvard Clubs will at least frown upon it. Yours very truly H. H. NOYES...