Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate, I venture the guess that Mr. Milstead with all his deep rooted Ku Klux Klan brand of patriotism and desire to die for his country, did his fighting during the World War in the Battle of the Living Room, or certainly in the Guerre de la Chambre de Couche . . . IRA HODES New York, N. Y. Born in, fought and bled, and like hundreds of thousands of other non Ku Klux Klanners ready at a moment's notice to fight again for our United States of America...
...titles of his wrought iron fire screens are "A Cock-Fight," "Man and Horse," "Wolf and Dogs," and "A Picador...
Among his silhouettes, typical subjects are of polo, an Indian, several boxers, a cock-fight, a trumpeter, and several bull fighters. The paintings of the ceramics are of similar subjects...
...history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign war. He borrows a seal from the prince...
...hard for John Charles Fremont, adventurer (TIME, March 12), to realize that Kit was a devil incarnate in an Indian fight. Fremont, generous, press-agented the unassuming Kit, who helped him capture territory from the Mexicans and make California a part of the U. S. As a lieutenant, Kit took part in Fremont's quarrel with General Kearney in the California conquest. The U. S. Government was unwilling to confirm Kit's commission; and thus his two years' service to his country under Fremont went unpaid and unrecognized. Kit regarded the Army as an unmixed curse...