Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signs of military recognition, at least as far as I was concerned. After he had passed me without saluting, stopped him and said, "How long have you been here?" And he answered, "Why, I have been here about four days, and how long have you been here, old man?" He was a splendid young man, but knew nothing of military service. All he needed was tactful handling...
...schools. And there are scores of other problems which we must meet. We country are slipping backwards and must stand firmly for our American ideals, and stand against all class legislation. We want no autocracy of any one class; we want to stand together under one flag under the old spirit of liberty and loyalty. We want to harmonize the elements in this country. There is no greater danger in the country than those political fakirs who are threatening our national existence. Let us bend every effort to keep alive that fine spirit of friendship and co-operation...
With the renewal of intercollegiate sports came fewer reforms than many persons interested in athletics had hoped for. The new leaf that we turned over bears a strong resemblance to the old; but we have effected some reduction in wasteful expenses and have at least opened some important questions; the discussion of which may result in more or less radical improvements. Representatives of Yale, Princeton, and Harvard agreed before the year was over to the publication of the announcement...
...exhausting the store. Some of the things Stevenson missed, Herman Melville found in the South Seas--and wrote "Typee." Days of the fear of sudden death; days of drowsy, warm forgetfulness; dark seas curling over glistening sands; amber sun-light through the palm-fronds, caressing the face of tough old chief, or wrinkled medicine-man, or startling the shadows from the soft eyes of Fayaway...
...tank, and town boundary in the state of Connecticut, of Farmers' Associations threatening to retire from business if the Daylight Saving Ordinonce were adopted, and Chambers of Commerce vowing to disband if it were not. At present most of us are in the same state of mind as the old lady who declared not long ago that she "hoped that some day the clocks would tell time according to the will of the Almighty, instead of mixing up with Democratic politics...