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...many have been the complaints of those who see in these continuous couchings of various individuals upon the Yard grass at all times and sundry one more example of primitivism that curse of curses and anathema of anathemae. Nor or they far from wrong...
...Scandinavian countries in the javelin throw, I firmly believe that the athletes from the different continents will be on even terms within three or four years. Some misguided persons thought that American boys should throw the javelin extremely well because they are such wonderful baseball players. That is all wrong. They are on the wrong road. Javelin throwing is altogether different. Baseball requires fewer muscles than the javelin. The surprising thing is that American athletes improve so fast at the javelin...
...writing books so fast that someone is going to buy one before he knows it, though I don't quite see how. For really I have a lot of faith in human nature. Just when you think that there is no hope and that everything is going wrong, someone does some such positively assinine thing that your faith is completely restored. One can do one of two things, to be dogmatic; he can keep facing the sun until it blinds him; or he can turn around and face the dark with the sunlight making a halo about his head...
...with a shattering succession of excellent dance numbers. It has been made over from an old farce which once amused for an inconsiderable period as Little Miss Brown. About half of the original was eliminated to make room for song and dance about a girl who strayed into the wrong hotel bedroom. The music and the foolishness are mostly routine. Dorothy Dilley and a vaudeville team called Wayne and Warren are the most capable performers...
...Although I believe that Prohibition has benefited the country a great deal and given it many advantages over non-prohibition countries, there is evidently something wrong with the system employed. I think that the educational side of the matter has been too much neglected. At present Prohibition enforcement is attempted entirely by legal means, and the enforcement is thus not complete. You cannot force the general public to obey a law while many of them are not convinced of its value...