Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officially been listed as a deserter from the U. S. Marine Corps. In 1864, while on a ten-day furlough to Baltimore, onetime Devildog Tracy took some drinks, lost consciousness, awoke on an oyster dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge: "You can do anything you like here [New York...
...that I can say is that we will have a navy if you, in civil life, do some acting. Then we'll get along mighty fine. Mr. Mayor, I did not expect to have to make a speech. We are here with the greatest of pleasure after two years and I hope that my officers and men all enjoy the hospitality of this city as much as I have. Your hospitality is well known. The men are from all parts of the country. They have been working very hard for the last three months and I believe they enjoyed...
...Roused from this torpor when Lady Nancy Astor, famed "First Woman M. P.", defended vigorously a bill designed to prevent the Government from discharging women civil employes as soon as they marry. Said Lady Astor...
When, however, the ominous rumblings of civil war increased in 1915 and Chinese patriots started to flock to the nationalist standard in the south, Soong found himself moving towards Canton with the rest of the revolutionists...
...such intrigues, questioned Miss Stanton, proceed from "the arrogance of a race long accustomed to wage war, with modern military equipment, on backward people"? Miss Stanton clearly thought so, and spoke like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...