Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of the Democratic Party by virtue of his 1924 nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished, as the years went by, that circumstances...
...board of engineers-the Secretary of War, the Chief of Army Engineers, the president of the Mississippi River Commission, two civil engineers to be appointed by the President-to conclude differences in plans and supervise work...
Lord Cave. Lying invalid in his Somersetshire home of Burnham-on-Sea, George Viscount Cave, 72, felt his strength definitely impaired, last week, and executed in good time his resignation as Lord High Chancellor. The incumbent of this office is the highest civil subject in the land outside the royal family. He keeps the King's conscience, sits on the Woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords, surmounts the pyramid of English judges, partakes of membership in the Cabinet, and performs such chores as standing guardian of all infants and lunatics...
...Italian nation virtually was at civil war. Railways, postal and telegraphic services . . . were hopelessly disorganized. Industry had been paralyzed for several years by revolutionary strikes. The government had lost all effective authority. Parliament was a feeble confusion of conflicting cliques...
During the Civil War he was a nurse. Lincoln said "he looks like a MAN." The soldiers adored him but no one seemed to like his poetry. When he was gray and paralyzed a measure of recognition came to him, also a lady from England to marry him. He accepted the recognition, evaded the lady...