Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greeley of the oldtime New York Tribune, in an open letter to "My Dear Sisters of the South": "Do not think me intrusive in speaking to you, but recall how my father, Horace Greeley, came down after the Civil War, to bail your President, Jeff Davis, and returned to face in consequence almost financial ruin. May I send you a word of greeting to say how glad I am that so many of you are breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown up in the clean country, an orphan wrestling with...
Your fair face beams...
Four years ago, in the father's presidential campaign, both LaFollette sons were on the touring train. Observant people noticed then that there was "mo; of the old man" in Brother Phil than in Brother Bob. It was in his longer, square-cut face; Brother Bob's face is chubby-round, more like that of his stateswomanly mother, Belle Case LaFollette. It was in his voice, a sharper, stronger, more whip- cracking voice than Brother Bob's. It was in his bodily movements ? quick, alert, crisp; Sculptor Jo Davidson, troubled about the hands of his statue...
...establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point was the result of numerous considerations, mainly strategic and topographical. The sudden volte-face here of the Hudson was seized upon by Revolutionary military leaders as the logical place to hinder hostile passage of the river; and the long, tragic interlude of Arnold and Andre, with the failure of the British campaign treacherously supported by them, is interwoven with the importance of this region in the war. The close of the Revolution brought recommendations for the continuance of an army training post here; a Military Academy had been suggested...
...last parade of all is the greatest. The band plays old songs that are used only this once each year. The men of the graduates march to the front, a long straight line, they face about and the Corps that is left swings by them in review. It is almost a holy time...