Word: snaring
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...education. It would give greater opportunity for cultured development; it would leave more time for healthful sport, to mention only a few of its more obvious benefits. Let Mr. Edision bring on his short-time working day and stop worrying about its effect. The doleful Malthus will perhaps snare the country in the toils of his population low in a few generations. But meanwhile people would like the chance of creating a Golden Age which might rival the Renaissance in height and breadth of intellectual life...
Until Mr. Halsell's score, Frederick Snare of Garden City (L. I.), President of the Association and 1922 champion, led the field with 161. An extra putt at the 36th green cost Alexander H. Revell of Old Elm (Chicago) a tie with Mr. Snare for second place...
...word of the hour-is also suffering a political change. " He represents a stern and rock-bound conservatism that is rapidly becoming obsolete, even in the camp of conservatives." The illustrative "he" is Calvin Coolidge. Once he was "our pride" because he would deliver us from the snare of the Bolshevik. No-to continue with an editorial in that brilliant sun-paper (Baltimore Sun): " He is unyielding and unbending in a viewpoint which, whatever its virtues, certainly falls far short of meeting the needs of such an age as this, when social and economic amelioration is an inevitable part...
...less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers who snare the animals at night in nets and then loose them just over their neighbor's fence. As the neighbor also has his corps this policy insures plenty of food for the monkeys, plenty of work for the unemployed, and a little fruit for the owner...
...come into popularity. Born of Italian and English parentage in Italy, Mr. Sabatini knows many languages, but has elected to write in English and make his home in England. The recent popularity of Scaramouche and Captain Blood (1922) has caused the reprint of earlier novels such as The Snare and The Sea-Hawk...