Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much downtrodden. Of the 220-odd million feet in the U. S., ten million of them daily step on his face. For his features are still printed on the soles of his countrymen, although W. L. Douglas is dead...
...final chapter, "Experiences in America," obviously transcribed from a careful diary, "gives greetings" to Tolley's U. S. friends and, though somewhat overspattered with the first person singular, should help the book sell. Tolley's countrymen may feel that this chapter smacks of the alibi for its author's repeated failures abroad; the U. S. friends will find its humor well-meant but embarrassingly weak...
Pacific-their perils past, their proud adventure done. Three weeks ago, when the fliers arrived in Manhattan, James W. Wadsworth, senior U. S. Senator from New York, said: "At Boston, you saw thousands upon thousands of your fellow-countrymen thronging the streets and filling the open space in the centre of the old town so famous in the annals of the Republic-Boston Common. Your fellow-citizens indicated to you very clearly the quality of the emotions which fill the hearts of Americans today. You may have been stunned at the extent of that reception, as you may be with...
...according to their needs. You can raise up an aristocracy of culture, as a sort of flower of society, but it must flower out of society, not be separated from it. An artist like Poe or like Edward MacDowell seems tragic in his loneliness because so few of as countrymen had at the moment anything like the equipment for appreciating his genius. To develop isolated specimens of culture would be a silly ambition, even if it were possible. Of course each mind should have the training it needs, the best training it can take; the geniuses should have opportunities...
Tempestuous Gerald Patterson and bandy-legged little Pat O'Hara Wood, both of Australia, battered their way past France to the challenge round of 1924 Davis Cup play.* Lurking near the Longwood (Boston) courts a third Australian, sagacious, seasoned Norman E. Brookes, gave counsel to his countrymen between sets. In Manhattan, the East played the West, tied 3 matches each. For the first time in his young life, Vincent Richards (East) won an important match from "Little Bill" Johnston (West), second ranking player of the U. S. In doubles, Richards and Francis T. Hunter, who together are Wimbledon...