In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.