Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He pointed out how interested Roosevelt the young man was in every feature of his environment, and drew from his store of college reminiscences incident after incident to show Roosevelt's popularity, his keen enjoyment of companionship, and above all the formative influence which the college of 800 undergraduates had...
The U. S. State Department received official confirmation that Mexico and Venezuela had broken off diplomatic relations, long strained. It was said that the refusal by Venezuela to permit the landing of a Mexican opera troupe was looked upon as the final incident in creating the break.
Word came to the U. S. that William Henry Ellis, who preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous incident in which...
Of the Italo-Greek incident. "The Italian-Greek incident is closed. . . . Italy has acted in the same way as the U. S., France or England would have acted in similar circumstances and as they have acted in the past. The authors of the horrible crime are still in hiding and...
Which is not to say that the book is merely sugar-coated history, for it is not. It has little mechanical intricacy of plot but a strong thread binds it together?the thread of Fremont's inevitable and typically American struggle up from the status of a "neatherd"#151;his...