Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William L. Williamson were killed, as were five Nicaraguans. The most lofty concept of what the U. S. is accomplishing in Nicaragua was recently voiced by U. S. Marine Corps Commander Major General John A. ("Leatherneck") Lejeune. Said he: "The Nicaraguan people need help, and the Marines are doing God's work in playing the Good Samaritan to them...
...Western nations had been maintained for centuries in accordance with the following typical Shogun's proclamation: "So long as the sun warms the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan. Let all know that if King Philip † himself or even the very God of the Christian contravene this prohibition they shall pay for it with their heads. Let them think no more of us, just as if we were no longer in the world...
...President Coolidge's speech was many a ringing sentence such as: "Our doctrine of equality and liberty of humanity and charity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God...
...referring to the familiar "For God, for Country and for Yale" which must be sung: "For God, for Ca-a-unt-ry and for Yale"--which is loathsome but which can be made very unannoying and definite not by changing the words at all but by repeating two of them, thus: "For God for God, for Country and for Yale." Furthermore, this not only adds smoothness and decision but puts the greatest emphasis where emphasis is lacking. In our undergraduate course in English at Yale, we were told that the order For God, For Country and for Yale...
...satire, so pleasantly present in "South Wind," may still be found in "In the Beginning," but the hand that guides is less sure, less deft. The fantastic mythology, created by Mr. Douglas, is pretty hard to keep track of, in their meanderings over the earth and heayens. The gods mix with the ladies, and the goddesses with men, and who is a god of the first water and who is an honest-to-God man is too difficult to perceive for an average-minded reader like your reviewer...