Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. At Cambridge, Mass., of old age, the Washington Elm, beneath which, on July 3,1775, George Washington first took supreme command of the Army of the United Colonies...
With his enthusiasm for Dickens, which gave birth to a delightful volume, Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play, is linked his enthusiasm for the Army and the doughboy, which occasioned The Command is Forward, and his unqualified admiration of Mrs. Fiske, which gave the world Mrs. Fiske?Her Views on Acting, Actors and the Problems of the Stage. To these three volumes we may add a recent collection of essays, Shouts and Murmurs...
...large news of a Norma Talmadge picture should concern Norma Talmadge. Accordingly?she is exceedingly beautiful and a moderately good actress. She can command and she can weep. She has a large constituency. For them it may be said that in Ashes of Vengeance she is a little better than usual...
...annually, for which he is entitled to one work of art, chosen by him in the order of his rank by lot. The artists donate one work annually for a period of three years. Some of the world's greatest artists are numbered in the group, whose works would command anywhere several times $600. On the other hand, there are many comparatively young and unknown, to whom this excellent plan comes as a godsend in marketing their wares. And everybody is happy. Outside buyers are not excluded, and already six works have been sold. As fast as gaps appear, other...
...Mormon had expressly forbidden, polygamy: "There shall not any man have save it be one wife and concubines he shall have none, for I the Lord God delighteth in the chastity of women. . . . For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people, otherwise they shall hearken unto these things." In 1843, Smith had a " revelation " establishing polygamy, but it is supposed that he had been secretly practicing it for some years. When the purport of the new revelation became generally known there was an uprising against the Mormons, and several...