Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Fred A. Moss of the psychology department of George Washington University at Washington, D. C., apparently has a low opinion of the average Harvard graduate...
Engaged. Graeme E. Lorimer, son of George Horace Lorimer, Editor since 1899 of The Saturday Evening Post and author of Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, to Miss Sarah Hunter Moss, of Bala, Penn...
Kiwanis. 5,000 representatives of 94,000 members in the U. S. and Canada, met in St. Paul, paraded, dined, elected one John H. Moss* their chief officer, were electrified by a speech containing such statements as "The men who shout for more business in government do not realize the limitations of a democratic government. . . . Business in government would ignore the social duties of the government," discussed the memorial to Warren G. Harding, onetime Kiwanian, which has been designed by a Kiwanian architect, built by a Kiwanian construction company, erected with Kiwanian money in Vancouver, B. C. With due respect...
Fortunately, we have much better regular army authority than General Bullard on the conduct of American Negro troops in war. Colonel James A. Moss, a graduate of West Point, who served 18 years with Negro troops and commanded the 372d Infantry in France, says: "If properly trained and instructed, the Negro makes as good a soldier as the world has ever seen. The history of the Negro in all of our wars, including our Indian campaigns, shows this. He is by nature of a happy disposition, he is responsive and tractable, he is very amenable to discipline, he has faith...
Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...