Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commander for the A. E. F. that it should turn to this soldier of ability; of great force and dignity who would not play politics. The details as to just how he was selected to command the A. E. F. are unknown to me but I do know this-Mr. Baker needed no Senator to tell him about Pershing. Mr. Baker did not work that way. Pershing needed no Senator to present his claims for he did not serve his country that way. Further, if anyone is interested in the record behind Pershing's original promotion from captain...
...TIME of Aug. 19, (P-47) the adage is quoted in its popular form, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, Teach." In view of your characterization of this as "bitter and unfair" you may be interested to know of Bernard Shaw's recantation or at least modification of that caustic remark in his Preface to The W. E. A. Education Yearbook (1918) pp. 20, 21 : "This, by the way, is the best answer to my famous gibe, 'He who can do, does: he who can think, teaches' is just as true as the other...
...York. Some thief was stealing jewelry from the passengers' cabins; $25,000 worth was missing without a clue. With 600 stewards aboard, most of whom were as yet unknown to the officers, it looked like a hopeless case. Capt. Ziegenbein assembled 50 stewards whom the officers did know by sight, formed a ''vigilance committee." Before the Bremen docked, all the jewelry was recovered from the clutches of one Hans Barklage, a shrewd thief in a steward's uniform, wearing a counterfeit steward's badge. Officials suspected Prisoner Barklage of a part in the $100,000 theft last year from mail...
Hallelujah (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Before the end of this picture you get the idea that King Vidor, who wrote and directed it, does not know much about Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the way a black man's mind works as, for instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind...
...that parents, moralists, sociologists and legislators might know more about dance halls, the U. S. Children's Bureau* commissioned Ella Gardner, specialist, to compile a survey which was published last week. Facts now known about U. S. dance halls (gathered from 416 cities) include the following...