Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know, for example, that the first photograph ever taken of cannibals partaking of human flesh was secured with the aid of a flashlight camera by Mr. Martin Johnson only two years ago. I inclose a copy...
Except a few who have struck oil on their land allotments, and now ride around in straight-eights, most of the Indians are still poor enough to need Government aid...
Some 442,000 Britons who declared themselves unable to find work were discovered to be humbugs and refused aid...
Comment in the U. S. ranged from marked irritation in the New York Times to hardy philosophizing by the Chicago Tribune, which sensibly interpreted the Kipling lines as an aid to international understanding. "What America needs for its protection in foreign affairs is an antidote to the sentimentalism to which we as a people are curiously inclined and which is conspicuously expressed by citizens whose education, position and worldly means give them an influence out of proportion to their deserts." George Washington's Farewell Message was recalled, with its well-known warning to avoid indulging habitual hatred or habitual...
After he published his first novel, a boldish tale for its day (1902), it was not adulation but inherent self-confidence that made him vault the footlights in Richard Mansfield's theatre one afternoon and offer that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake...