Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are, there are. I know several men who can do the Stare better than I. My Stare has never been what a should be. I can keep my eyes glassy, Yes, I can even do better than most Careful Greeters that exquisite expression of the thin, suddenly drawn-back lip. What was wrong I never suspected, but now--A professional secret, mustn't well. Honor bright...
...used his night stick only twice in his career. Says he: "The day of the bully is done. The day of the treat-'em-rough policeman is over. We must so conduct ourselves, in our relations with the public, that we shall be regarded as public servants who know the rules of courtesy as well as the means of capturing a criminal." The "third degree" (arm-twisting, dazzling with a light, beating with a hose) is not used to extort confessions in Omaha...
From a prissy little man such words would sound insufferably priggish. From Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-who looks like the Great Buddha suddenly galvanized into something strenuous and vital-the command "Don't degenerate!" rang with significance and power. Chinese know that the largest private army in the world-150,000 men-is maintained by Feng Yu-hsiang, and that he has inspired his soldiers to a remarkable degree with his own austere strength. Each soldier has been taught a trade. The whole army can support itself indefinitely upon the Chinese countryside in Liberty, Frugality, Fraternity...
Thus wrote Rewrite Man Edgar Allen Poe in the Birmingham Age-Herald last week. His name, startling, aroused no curiosity in habitual readers of the Age-Herald who know that Newsman Poe spells his middle name with an "e" where Poet Poe spelled it with an "a," and that Newsman Poe is no relative of Poet...
Last spring, he wrote for the New York World an obituary for famed Nora Bayes, which ended: "I don't know where she is now, but I do know that whoever is with her is having a swell time." That applies well to Frank Sullivan, whether you are with him or reading his works...