Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge told how much more the U. S. meant to him than a geographical location. ". . . At present our land is the abiding place of peace, universal freedom and undoubted loyalty, holding the regard of all the world as a mighty power, stable, secure, respected. The people are prosperous, the standards of social justice were never so high, the rights of the individual never so extensively protected. . . . No one would claim that our country is perfect. . . . Yet . . . a nation, which has raised itself from a struggling dependency to a leading power in the world, without oppressing its own people...
...then proceeded to trace the en tire history of naval and land disarmament at the League. Coming to the point of the last Naval Conference, called by U. S. President Coolidge, he said...
Last week a sleek, brilliant citizen of the U. S. became a subject of His Britannic Majesty King George V. He is Thomas Stearns Eliot, relative of the late Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University. Poet and critic, he is the author of The Waste Land, a poem which won the Dial prize for 1922, and The Sacred Wood, a volume of critical works...
Although Burton Rascoe thought his The Waste Land a "thing of bitterness and beauty," a nameless London editor pronounced it "an obscure but amusing poem." The reader must judge for himself. But of his brilliance as a critic there can be little doubt, however much his taste may be in dispute...
...following his death, as is the custom, the late Sultan was laid to rest in Fez, a solemn ceremony being held in the Great Mosque. All the high dignitaries of the land were present. French Resident General Theodore Steeg paid his last respects to the dead monarch before the great catafalque that bore his corpse, but he was not allowed to enter the Mosque, as none but Moslems...