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...wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line taken within 48 hours, because their general had the reputation of a fire-eater and because the regiment was his tested mouthpiece, the exhausted men were routed out of a five-hour sleep and hurried back into the front line. The optimistic general came up to the front himself, to plan and oversee the attack. He figured the probable casualties as "five per cent...
...followed Bronson Cutting to his grave were the liberals of Congress. When he joined them seven years ago, an unassuming young bachelor from New Mexico, he did not seem a promising member of a group which is traditionally composed of the prima donnas of politics. He was neither fire-eater nor spellbinder, but to the liberals he became something more useful. In his quiet way he cemented the bonds between them, often persuaded them to hang together instead of flying off in a dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought to the Capitol...
Wall Street is used to soap-box Reds whose favorite place for haranguing the public is the curb eater-corner from J. P. Morgan & Co. Once a year Wall Street's echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volume-the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years...
...rarely seen in the company of more than one of its kind. These attributes make U. S. citizens unversed in Nature proud to acknowledge the bald eagle as their national bird and emblem. Shocking to patriots are the facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were appointed in 1776 to design...