Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, March 28, on p. 1, has made a grave error† as to the effect of rain on Presidential aspirations. The old adage, honored from the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, is: The more rain, the more corn; the more corn, the more whiskey; the more whiskey, the more Democrats...
Just to tell you that the portrait of Sinclair Lewis on the cover of TIME, March 14 gives one the best possible insight into Elmer Gantry and the rest of Lewis' yammerings...
...largest bituminous coal operator in the world, the Pittsburgh Coal Co., went nonunion. April 1, when the strike began is a Union fête day; in Pittsburgh, past smoke-stained buildings, union miners paraded to honor John Mitchell, champion of the eight-hour day. They timed their march to pass the shops of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. as the noon shift changed; they hoped by display of power to draw non-union men into the striking ranks. But non-union men, indifferent, raised no cheers. Only heart-breaking news came to the marchers; another company, the huge Pittsburgh Terminal...
...Chiang Kaishek, Generalissimo of the Cantonese Nationalist Army which has conquered the Southern half of China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), and captured Shanghai (TIME, March...
Much has been said about the joys and felicities of spring, about the bursting buds, the gentle zephyrs the livelier iris on the burnished dove, etc, etc.--usually when March winds were still tossing hats gaily about the Yard. But no one can say more that these things are a delusion and a share, a trap for the unwary who essay forth coatless, trusting the tempered wind, for the baseball season has arrived. So this afternoon, the Vagabond will wander out toward Soldiers Field, admire in passing the blue of the river as it mirrors the fleecy clouds, and then...