Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leaving your beautiful land and your friendly citizens, I bring to France memories of the kindest greeting I ever had, of the most gracious, kindly and generous treatment on every hand...
Astute observers then went quietly away and reflected that Spain, after having poured out millions of pesetas during a desultory struggle with 25,000 Riffians which has lasted seven years, is now celebrating the capture of an insignificant village, the so-called capital of Riff-land. Belgians, Serbians and Rumanians, they pointed out, found it quite possible to do a deal of heavy fighting after Brussels, Belgrade and Bucharest had fallen to the Central Powers. Abd-el-Krim is still at large. And the Spanish attack of last week, crowned by the fall of his "capital" though it be, represents...
...against a door-jam and watched Champion William Harrison Dempsey sign a contract to meet him in a ten-round, no-decision contest in Michigan City, Ind., in Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened it to the Oath of the Tennis Court, the signing of Magna Carta, of the Treaty of Versailles. Others were more skeptical; among them...
Officers. Bank underlings who tug valiantly at their bootstraps throughout the land were again encouraged by the Association's annual bow in their direction.-For President of the A. B. A. was chosen the noted Alabama banker, Oscar Wells, President of the First National Bank of Birmingham. Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college, and risen from the springboard of his uncle's bank to be first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Tex. He is rubicund yet determined; his rise has not been too meteoric...
Such addiction to creedal living cannot lead to any sweetness or much light. Quite the contrary, it has tended to make America a land where freedom is foresic and rights are reserved by referendum. Perhaps at some golden future time, even Americans will realize that capable actors become used to the spotlight...