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...generation that knew the World War as only a faint glimmering on the edge of infant horizons, it is hard to tell the difference between Armistice Day and any other holiday that breaks up class-room routine. The parades, the athletic events, and the glorification of the stars and stripes are as typical of Navy Day or the nineteenth of April as the holiday just past. But unlike the jingoistic sensations that Patriots' Day arouses, the first Armistice Day marked not just the celebration of victory but also the coming of a new spirit of idealism for a war-weary...
...occasion. There were Landon buttons in the crowds too, because it was evident that regardless of politics all New England was turning out to see the show. It was an unenthusiastic crowd, yet rare was the town in which from two to a dozen women did not faint in the press...
...reception recently afforded members of the Landon-Knox club by certain occupants of Dudley Hall arouses a faint feeling of disgust so soon after a tercentenary marked by pledges of continued freedom and liberality. Small-minded bigotry evinced by tearing up campaign literature and hindering members of the Landon-Knox committee from distributing their material only results in the pitying suspicion that certain commuters are as yet not sufficiently mature to enjoy the new-found freedom of Dudley Hall. Perhaps a nursery in the Union would serve their purposes as well...
...cannot contradict you with the crispness many cocksure letter-writers manage to achieve, but I have a faint recollection...
...trapped miner was a trapped miner, and Superintendent Jones called his foreman, assembled timber, tackle and a squad of miners for the rescue. All that day and the following night the rescuers could hear faint sounds from Enoch Kuklinskie. They were afraid that wet clay dripping from the shaft walls would fill up the air holes in the rubble before they reached him. Next morning they got him free, hoisted him out of the shaft on a board...