Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muzzle and the voice of a lion." A cold-water-bather, long-walker, sound-sleeper, lover of wine and fish. He needed women but liked them guardedly. Said he of them: "If I had been willing thus to sacrifice my vital force, what would have remained for the nobler, the better thing?" His heredity predisposed him to tuberculosis and alcoholism while enteritis, syphilis, weak eyes were potential added maladies. His deafness, believes Author Rolland, was due to overworked ears. Beethoven died of cirrhosis of the liver. He scorned the feeble, ignorant, baseborn, wellborn, and those who loved him. His most...
...Smith for 54 years graced the Alabama Bar and for over 40 years was recognized as not only the leader of the Bar in his own State, but was generally regarded throughout the South as one of the most outstanding lawyers of the time. No abler lawyer or nobler man ever lived than Mr. Gregory L. Smith. . . . I was his secretary for many years...
...attribute the difference between major and minor sports to the fact that "Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity, the idea arose that football was a nobler sport, and that its devotees were to be honored above the run of ordinary men." Is it not more probably true that the stiffer competition involved in major sports should of itself evoke a greater reward? After all a man who has one or two competitors for a position is less deserving of recognition than one who is successful in winning out over...
...major" and "minor" is a remnant of the days when there attached to each game a certain individual glory that was saleable off the athletic field. Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity, the idea arose that football was a nobler sport, and that its devotees were to be honored above the run of ordinary...
...your issue for March 4, you say, "Walter Hampden, whose heart is on nobler things, offered Rostand's sentimental hero to the sentimental U. S. Public." Allow me to say that there is no nobler thing than Cyrano. WM. LYON PHELPS...