Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan. "Uncle Dan," who first made himself useful as the 15-year-old New York Tribune copy boy who could decipher Horace Greeley's handwriting, learned about the theatre as advance agent for a minstrel show. But unlike his brilliant brother Charles (lost on the Lusitania in 1915), who organized huge nationwide theatre combines, he limited his productions to Manhattan and, after 1885, chiefly to one theatre. In the roster of his great Lyceum Theatre Stock Company (with David Belasco as stage manager) were E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Henry Miller, many another illustrious name...
Then U-boat warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, makes Sometown feel angry frustration, determined to do something. But Congressman John Lawton says there is only one thing to be done, and no one wants to go to war. As 1915 falls flaming into 1916, this is true, but Sometowns over the U. S. look toward thin-faced, worried Woodrow Wilson, about to marry Mrs. Gait. When Charles Evans Hughes quits the Supreme Court to run against Wilson, and almost wins, a period in history is already drawing to a close. Sometown's main street sees its first Preparedness...
...literary histories pass over the career of Elbert Hubbard, Sage of East Aurora. Yet his writings crossed the path of a whole U. S. generation. Between 1895 and his death on the Lusitania, millions read his little magazine, The Philistine, his Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. He wrote the most famous of all inspirational bromides, A Message to Garcia (total estimated printing to date: 40,000,000 copies, including those issued as regulation equipment to both Russian and Japanese soldiers in the Russo-Japanese...