Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately, ayes and nays were heard throughout the land. Said Walter Eckersall, former great quarterback: "One of the worst things ever done to the game." Said Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...
...mildly-worded resolution, perhaps because it was edited by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, one of the authors of the Federal Reserve Act (1913). Not mild, however, was the accompanying speech by ponderous Senator Heflin of Alabama. Wall Street, he bellowed, was the hotbed and breeding place of the worst form of gambling that ever cursed the country. The Louisiana State Lottery slew its hundreds but the New York State gambling exchanges were slaying hundreds of thousands. The gambling monster was destroying U. S. homes, was driving U. S. citizens to poverty, to insanity. There must be a stop...
...small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope; at worst, a jest...
Obviously one of the worst taunts that may be thrust at a Christian Scientist is to claim that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy used anesthetics at the times she was suffering, approaching death. Recently that taunt was made by a Christian Scientist. It was not denied...
...York was unmoved by "Anything Your Heart Desires". There are tumblers, Arab being this week's nationality, and there is a ventriloquist seal that limitates a lamb, a horse and a bee. The seal also blows out Dunhill lighters, which proves that there's so much good in the worst of us it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest...