Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known as a boy in Vermont) what it felt like to be President, Cal replied, after...
Jerome Connor, Irish sculptor, was as elusive as an Irish moonbeam. In all the recent arts of Ireland there was no evanescence quite like his. He was the man who was going to carve a memorial to the dead of the Lusitania in the waterfront square of the town of Cobh, an easy gull's night from the Lusitania's ocean grave...
Committee Meetings. Photographs of the Lusitania project kept appearing in Irish, English and U.S. newspapers. To be sure, the designs appeared to keep changing, but Jerome Connor would from time to time cross to New York and hold explanatory conferences with the memorial committee. Now it was the graceful announcement of a postponement. Now it was the equally graceful revelation of a new date for the unveiling. When the date arrived, however, Jerome Connor had usually volatilized again...
...World War II has yet to touch. They went in pictures like Hearts of the World; The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin; the wonderful Shoulder Arms and the somewhat less wonderful but far more typical The Little American, in which German soldiers battered at the stateroom doors of the foundering Lusitania in their eagerness to get at U.S. Red Cross nurses. Such films were reportedly shown on hospital ceilings and in rude theaters 90 ft. under the blasts of Verdun. It is hardly surprising that veterans turn up, now & then, who remember dugouts gratefully named Keystone Kottage, Vitagraph Village...
World famous in World War I, Shaw showed high courage by insisting on freedom of opinion in wartime. He attacked the outcry over the sinking of the Lusitania, claimed it was sentimental to weep over the loss of a few rich passengers at a time when millions were dying horribly at the front. Dropped by dozens of friends, he lived with his stairway barricaded by iron spikes, continued to write violent criticism of the British...