Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, "Never did an Army leader take the field with such poor equipment and such poor food as America in the days of '98. The same thing would happen if we went to war now. . . ." Major General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff, protested: "The 1920 National Defense Act is ... developing excellently. ... It is what the title proclaims, an Act designed to procure adequate peacetime military establishment. . . ." Miss Jennie R. Dix, president of the Spanish War Nurses made a little speech; so did Mrs. Margaret Manion, president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans...
...more than a speech you have made. It is an act of faith to which I subscribe fully. Certainly we are following together a policy of peacefulness based on our friendship as guarantee...
...addition to curbing his use of the term "sap" also refresh his memory regarding peculiarities of the verbs "lie" and "lay", should he again care to express an opinion publicly? transitive; "Lay," it has long been thought, requires a direct object. "Lie" is the intransitive verb meaning the act of reclining...
...death wrapped up $100,000 in a brown paper envelope consigned to nobody. The surprise, according to reviewing ethics, must not be divulged. Let readers know, however, that beauteous Phyllis Povah, who plays as sec- retary to the Senator whose demise is so unfortunately recorded in the first act, holds fast to the brown paper envelope on land as well as on sea, whither the characters repair in the second act, and in the end bestows herself upon the victim's eldest son. To many a flashing blade, nocturnal groan, mayhem, is this lady privy. There is a younger...
...told he had no right to jail them. He retorted: "But they're in jail, aren't they? You've got to act quick when you're facing a crisis...