Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was four years ago. Today the stores are open, as they were last Saturday, so are the banks; every thing is just as usual save for the occasional memorial services, and the incidental celebrations like that at the stadium between the halves. America is rapidly forgetting the days of the war; and returning to her old policy of "every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost...
...type of game played by a Princeton team. They are perhaps the greatest gamblers on the gridiron. Against Chicago they took chances in the hardest possible situations and won when their team was ahead. Against Yale in 1921 they gambled again and won, by doing the least expected thing...
...Most American Thing...
This League is far and away the most American thing that I have seen all summer on this suffering continent of Europe. That little international community of 350 men and women--the Secretariat whose work in the bustling Palais des Nations by the Rhone carries so far--has many Americans in it, three of whom, I am glad to say, are in really important positions. This great experiment that American faith and courage did much to start needs, as it has always needed, our aid as well as that of others. It has now become a successful experiment...
...Editor said: "The Motion-Picture magnates descended to such depths of indecency and obscenity that decent people were aroused.... We believe that they deserved severe punishment." A police officer, railing at the "old maids" that were asking the legislature to pass such a law, added: "But one thing I should like to see stopped,--Motion Pictures are making all the boys in my neighborhood little thugs." The very appointment, by the industry, of Mr. Will H. Hays to clean it up, is an admission, both, that there is need of cleaning up and that regulation is possible. We believe...