Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homer nodded; Shakespeare gave Bohemia a seacoast; Michelangelo painted Adam with a navel. Last week the august New York Times slipped and fell. Readers of the Times read a pathetic story about a deer, frightened, running for its life through the streets of Brooklyn. Circumstantial was the Times reporter. Said he: "The wanderer was not a large deer, as deer go. It had a manner that plainly showed it expected very little from life", According to the Times, the deer was small, had no antlers. The story spoke of children and Santa Claus. The deer's fate was tragic...
...complaints against the book, threats to withdraw custom unless sale of the book was stopped, testifying to the effective activities of Christian Science Committees on Publication. Author Thompson reminded his readers of the fate of an earlier biography of Mrs. Eddy, The Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, by Adam & Lillian S. Dickey, published in 1927 by the Merrymount Press of Boston. This book was recalled at the behest of the Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston so thoroughly that now only four copies exist...
...think the Thomas statement is simply scandalous!" chirped pretty Miss Florence Underwood, Secretary of the British Women's Freedom League. "Like the old Adam, he is just trying to blame women for everything, even unemployment...
...Adam Walsh, line coach, gave the linesmen a brief session in charging and blocking practice. He pointed out that Saturday's game was to be decided by the performance staged by the two opposing lines, as both teams have excellent backfields. Coach Walsh also told his men that he expected them to break through the Harvard line and break up Barry Wood's passes. Coach Ducky Pond took charge of the backs in the drill on fundamentals preceding the supervised scrimmage, and pointed out mistakes that had been made in the Princeton combat
...rain, which poured a good part of the afternoon and instead he ordered the blue squad to report to the Y Club for a skull practice, which lasted about two hours. The formations and plays used by Harvard this season were explained to the wearers of the Blue. Coach Adam Walsh, who scouted the Harvard-Michigan game at Ann Arbor, Michigan, explained in detail the strong and weak points of the Crimson line and also discussed the Harvard backs...