Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government announced that 80,000 reinforcements were on their way to the front and darkly hinted that another 300,000 men might be mobilized...
...certain type of successful small boy there is observed a spirit that cannot brook the presence of a tall tree in front or back yard until he has shinned to its topmost crotch. Among grown men, the same intolerance is manifest where parties of them scramble for the pinnacles of high mountains...
...thing that the war has done is to give an impetus to the French aerial medical services. Numberless lives have been saved by the transference of wounded soldiers (most of the French troops in Morocco are natives) by airplane from the front line to the base hospitals in the rear...
...strained for novelty. There are no footlights. The stage comes graded down to a half moon of front-row tables. These are ostensibly sold to patrons at $11.00 a seat. Ginger ale is served. Off to the left where the boxes were sits a jazz band-not an orchestra. The chorus spends a good deal of time in the audience. Before the show begins and during the intermission, the audience dances on the stage...
Samuel Colton's House, Longmeadow, Mass.-"the finest mansion in town," built in 1755. The Museum has secured its fine front doorway, for which Merchant Colton paid, he records...