Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down the gangplank marched General John Joseph Pershing, closely followed by National Commander Howard Paul Savage of the American Legion. Some 19,000 legionaries were debarking at about the same time from 15 liners besides the Leviathan, flagship of "the Second A. E. F." Cherbourg and other French ports blared with bands, songs, shouts, kisses, clanking bottles, municipal oratory...
...only from your sense of patriotism but from your feeling of honor . . . neither you nor we ourselves will allow that part to be travested." General Pershing said: "An army grows to have a personality, a soul, just like anything else, and fortunately the soul of the A. E. F. has passed into the Legion...
...Government's other civil suit arising out of the oil scandals, against Oilman Harry F. Sinclair who leased the Teapot Dome (Wyo.) reserve, is still before the U. S. Supreme Court...
Carefree young U. S. citizens whose understanding of prohibition ends with the hard grins on the face of men that bring heavy bundles to their parents, last week turned a name over in their minds trying to think where they had heard it before. "F. Scott McBride?" they said. "Where before have I heard of F. Scott McBride...
...them realized that they had never before heard of F. Scott McBride. The name they were half-remembering was F. Scott Fitzgerald. They had read novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, works in which cocktails make the characters say unexpected things and in which highballs, gin fizzes, champagne inspire exciting conduct...