Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firing had ceased after 48 hours. Here a marine sifted, and as the grit drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied an exploding arsenal with water buckets. Little metal knicknacks were pondered on with shrugging shoulders. Unidentified. Meanwhile, other Navy committees investigate...
...date more than 20 bodies have been recovered. Many cannot be identified. Among the injured are many score citizens who are returning to their demolished homesteads. The horrors of the whole holocaust are principally borne by them, without redress against the Government. Despite this, a message, signed by the Rotary Club, and approved by the Kiwanis Club, the American Legion, the Business Men's Association, and the Mayor's Committee of Dover protested indignantly when it was suggested that perhaps it would be better to remove the arsenal to some distant region, take away from the merchant...
...They cannot perhaps afford to employ servants...
Portentously, the Prince of True Believers delivered his opinion: "I cannot see why it must be done...
...which Mr. Leacock addresses a great many, will find a few genial descriptions of themselves, which may or may not move them to agree with the blurb. But if no one agrees, the author need not repine. He is most amusing most of the time and if one cannot be another Mark Twain it is something, after all, to be a Stephen Leacock...