Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Owen did not write of football saws he wrote of the majority of players, which is quite a different matter. Undoubtedly the majority of stars, those who excel, who can beat their fellows at the game, enjoy it; but that involves the personal factor what is known as 'individual psychology'. Stars are in a class by themselves. It is whether the majority enjoy the game that is the important point...
...majority of players do not enjoy the game, it is mere idle chatter to speak of modern college football as a sport. It is sport for the spectators, and it is sport for the professional coach who plays his team against a rival coach. But of these I shall write in another communication. And I will try to answer the more important question which the Bulletin asked in its last number: What is the remedy? --if a remedy is really wanted...
...Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy; prepared to write the Earl of Reading down as one who has dominated India with tactful potency since...
...leaving to start a magazine of his own-Singing. Said he: "An odd fact it is that, though there are in the U. S. 250,000 vocal students and 50,000 professional singers, no special publication has ever been devoted to their interests. I have engaged contributing editors to write about operas, concerts, oratorios, folk lore, language study, repertoire...
Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...