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...closed, the people swarmed to see. Miss Leitch let down first under the annoyance of unruly spectators, came grimly back from 2 down at the 34th to square at the 36th hole. Her second on the 37th was a hook, her third too delicate, her putt too great to sink. Meantime, Miss Wethered arched two shots true to the green, putted firmly past the hole as a sound golfer does, putted exactly back to its center as only a champion...
...container which smells of liquor is sufficient evidence to incriminate a man on the charge of having possessed liquor. This does away with the ruse of emptying liquor into a sink when a policeman raps on the door...
...militaristic regime, that one is led to condemn America's present day manifestations of patriotism. It is rather because America's future is as deeply concerned with world peace as any nations. But never can this be attained until such old grievances as the Lusitania are allowed to sink into oblivion...
...specifying word. It strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...
...housewives of Iowa are practical women. They realize that garbage is an inevitable concomitant ok housekeeping, but they keep their garbage pails on the back porch or under the kitchen sink, out of sight. They realize that crime news is unavoidable in newspapers−indeed to some extent salutary for its purgative effect upon society−but they do not see that the front page is the logical repository for society's daily wastage−murder, arson, theft...