Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
...After the violent reaction to President Wilson's policies which kept this country out of the League when it was originally formed, there has been a gradual reversion of feeling among the people of the United States as they have come to realize the necessity of the League in preserving world peace and order. I am firmly convinced that if the matter were now referred to a general vote of the people, the result would be overwhelmingly in favor of our entry into the League. Although the government may not seem to realize this now, the pressure of popular feeling...
...Williams 3L. in the 125-pound class, and H. M. Kullman '27 in the 135-pound class. The other champions are as follows: 145-pound class, H. G. Dorman '26; 158-pound class, H. R. Wood '27; 175-pound class, G. D. Howe '28, and unlimited, S. S. Wilson...
Unlimited class--S. S. Wilson '28 won by default...