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...suffered the exposures of the trenches. . . . There is no provision in this bill against men of independent means claiming benefits from the Government for disabilities arising from civil life. . . . This bill contemplates compensation of some misconduct disabilities [venereal diseases] the whole conception of which must be repugnant to decent family life. . . . The bill in a wasteful and extravagant manner goes far beyond the financial necessities of the situation . . . will cost $110,000,000 the first year . . . increase to $235,000,000. . . . These costs are beyond the capacity of the Government without increased taxation...
...found guilty of vagabondage in a Manhattan police court. A detective, whose testimony was substantiated by three patrolmen, said that she had accepted $30 from him in a Manhattan hotel. Following a sentence of one day in jail, her inimical stepson Producer Arthur Hammerstein offered her $50 to be "decent" and clubwomen began raising a fund to combat the "double standard'' in prostitution cases...
...special job. Mr. Hitchcock Sr.'s will be to train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found he could not go east until August. This is the first year that the U. S. Polo Association has owned a decent stable. In past years some of the ponies were lent to the Association after the team was picked, but this year the Association needed its own ponies because it is not going to pick the international team until the night before the first match...
...certain disdain of "games" as opposed to "sports" is reflected in Mr. Danielson's editorials and his "Leaves from a Sportsman's Notebook," monthly feature of the magazine. Says he: "Sport, by every decent definition, is confined to man's contest with wild life or nature. It has nothing to do with man's competition with man-except in those cases where nature . . . decides-in the last analysis-the issue." To Sportsman Danielson football, golf, tennis, trapshooting, are games; foxhunting, sailing, mountaineering-Sports...
When John Van Ryn beat Hunter next day, some spectators said Hunter deserved it after taking the Bell match that way?who ever heard of a decent player claiming a default when his opponent had hurt himself? Others supported Hunter's own claim?that he had been playing for Bell's legs, that Bell could only beat these tactics by taking a rest. Beside, they said, how could Bell expect lenience after what he did to that sitter...