Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a comparison: "Grant was more magnanimous than Mr. Hoover. He left us [Southerners] our horses; Hoover took our shirts...
Wilhelm II, according to your story, blushed furiously and left the room, only to return later and assail Mackensen for the latter's failure to appear in uniform. Thereupon the Field Marshal is alleged to have repeated his former statement in effect...
...will be partially offset by cutting down the -Navy Department's allotment by 16 millions. President Coolidge pointed out that the cost of national defense has increased about 100 millions since 1926 but explained that "in these prior years the defense establishments have had the use of surplus left over from the war." The President declared himself satisfied that money for the Army and Navy air services was well spent. Besides Army & Navy flying, the U. S. air program is carried forward by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the Post Office, Agriculture and Commerce Departments. More than...
...German cities. A decade passed while critics flayed his canvases. Then slowly it was realized that Liebermann was doing for German art what Millet had done for French. Today Old Max may be labeled and pigeonholed as the "German Millet," an essentially bygone master, whom screeching modernist-art has left behind. Millet painted The Angelus, and The Gleaners. Old Max Liebermann has done Women Plucking Geese, An Asylum for Old Men, The Flax Spinners-and recently The Polo Team...
...Rubberman Harvey Firestone (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). One such ambitious colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic Ile de France...