Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leonard Wood needs no defender, but the expression "inexplicable lack of consideration for them," regarding a man who gave his life in their service when the whole world knows that he could have pursued easier and softer roads, betrays colossal ignorance and bias...
Death sped unseen across a white-walled courtyard, passed up a marble stair, and seemed to pause, irresolute, last week, in the bedchamber of Rumania's greatest man. The room, warmed by a great tile stove, was cozy; and Prime Minister Jon Bratiano, 63, clung hard to warmth and life. He could not speak, for inflammation brought on by blood infection, had gagged his throat; but with a steady hand he wrote to the physicians who bent over him: "Do not be impatient. I shall make a good fight...
...arrangement was that Mrs. Webb should advance funds until Farrar's voice was ready to earn her an income. In return, Farrar's life was insured in Mrs. Webb's favor. It was all repaid, Farrar writes in her Geraldine Farrar, within two years after her return...
...attitude of prospective employers". Commencement issues of the Lampoon notwithstanding, the graduate has never failed to recognize that the importance of the words, "baccalaureate" and "job" is in inverse proportion to their length. He has at last the foundation of a plan by which the success of his life may be less frequently jeopardized...
...play starts back in slavery days, a few years before the Civil War had brought about the legal emancipation of the colored race. The central theme, in which the action of the whole play is centered with more than usual intensity, is built around the life of a mulatto--a champion of the negro cause who is doomed to increasing disappointment and failure because his aspirations and his pride are out of all proportion to his abilities and his environment. The blood of the old colonnel, his natural father, makes him unwilling to submit to the indignities attendant...