I mention gameness last, but it is the most important trait. It means that neither fatigue nor pain nor the psychology of being behind the entire time will cause the dog to lose his enthusiasm for fighting contact.

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

More specifically, Scrabblers are diehard, competitive, and occasionally cutthroat players who treat the game like it's chess or baseball...

Our study is the first to investigate the price reaction of two broad commodity futures indices to several US macroeconomic announcements.