Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagine my pleasure on receiving my copy of TIME for March 21. How delighted I was with your supplement of "eight pages of Questions & Answers," and what an entertaining time my roommate and I had playing "The Game...
...fourth day of March, 1921, Woodrow Wilson, pathetic stood before the Capitol in the last act of his official life. Nearby, the saddened members of his Cabinet stood, saw their leader broken by struggle and paralysis; heard a man they did not admire take the oath of office of President of the U. S. Through their minds must have flashed memories of the glorious days of 1913, when the party of freckle-faced Jefferso and hard-cider Jackson came back to power. Happy days. . . . Josephus Daniels laughing in the first meeting of the Cabinet "Isn't it great...
Marines of all the great powers stood guard about the international city of Shanghai, last week, protecting its 40,000 white inhabitants from the defeated Shantung soldiers and the victorious Nationalist troops fighting sporadically in the Chinese city of Shanghai, recently captured (TIME, March 28) by the Nationalists. ¶ Routed Shantung troops pleaded and begged to be taken into the international city, and they were allowed this refuge by the great powers as fast as they could be disarmed. The Japanese especially welcomed these defeated troops and put some 2,000 on a Japanese transport, late in the week...
...capturing successively all the chief strongholds south of the middle Yangtze river, including the present Nationalist Capital, Hankow (TIME, Oct. 18). Thence he has proceeded to capture all the great cities south of the lower Yangtze, completing his conquest of the Southern half of China by taking Shanghai (TIME, March...
Critics, offering comprehensive reasons for his immortality, saw no prospect of his music's passing. Said the "Trenton Tough," George Antheil, he of the "Ballet Mecanique" and the panic-striking propeller (TIME, March 21) : "Beethoven is my hero especially on account of form." Said Music Critic William James Henderson: "The supremacy of tone art lay for him [Beethoven] in the identity of form and substance, of matter and embodiment...