Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Grand Army of The Republic was "encamped at Grand Rapids, Mich. And last week 5,000 blue-coated veterans marched as they have done in former years; with backs bent and eyes dim; with the aid of canes and crutches, but still with the indomitable spirit that even Lee could not daunt...
...Camp Grant On the old rifle range at Camp Grant, Ill., two miles from the cantonment, a Negro regiment of the Illinois National Guard was engaged in routine practice with a one-pound Howitzer. Servicing of the gun was proceeding without accident, as on countless former occasions. Black bodies bent and sweated in accustomed rhythm. Periodically gunners tugged at their lanyards, set off the propelling charge of their shells with the monotonous routine of well ordered automita...
...stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure, I diddled...
...success?" A certain energy of photographic personality has made him a star. It is apparently the plan of his employers to make him a humorous asset to their fortunes. In I'll Show You the Town he was funny. In Where Was I? he is bent on disproving that he married a certain lady in Washington, Dec. 9, 1923. He-or rather it-is not so funny...
...Vienna, the city where lie the bones of Theodore Herzl, onetime newspaper correspondent and pioneer in the Zionist movement, Zionists gathered for their 14th congress in 28 years. They bent together over tables in beer gardens, talking with subdued gestures, and always there was one name that rang and buzzed in their talk-the name of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization. Opposition to his reelection was brewing on three fronts...