Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albert employment last week, not as a valet but as a special inspector of police. People who remember that the "Tiger" generally slept in his clothes, hardly ever allowed them to be pressed, and once wore the same hat for twelve years, know that Valet Albert, however faithful, could never valet satisfactorily exquisite Chief Chiappe, but may make an excellent inspector of police. Chauffeur François Brabant, who dug the grave of the Father of Victory, will soon be installed as curator of a "Clémenceau Museum." Funds are rapidly being raised. Checks are mailed...
...beach is toss'd, It gives one beat for each life that is lost, And ghosts are legion that have heard the turn That rolls from the head of the Indian drum. It keeps its vigil with a measured thrum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" And never in the records has a wrong beat come- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" A brave and his bride once went for a sail And both of them perished in the terrible gale: But all that was heard was a single turn- There was just one beat...
...sing to him as a little boy in Wales, whence he emigrated to Pittsburgh 48 years ago. Grym y groes (The Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary of Labor sang in Welsh for two reasons: i) The song had never been translated into English; 2) at Sharon, Pa., before his radio set sat David James Davis, 80, harkening with vast delight to his son's cheerful voice. And before their radio sets throughout the land sat many other Welshmen. Next day at Cabinet meeting Secretary Davis announced: "Apparently most...
From the far field of a war that was never a war returned to the U. S. last week 75 warriors?each in a flag-draped wooden box. Twenty-nine of them were nameless. Icy cold blew the dawn wind as the S. S. President Roosevelt churned slowly up New York harbor, but a balmy breeze it was compared to the blasts of the North Russian winter of 1918-19 when these U. S. soldiers died fighting the Red Army. After eleven years and by dint of diligent search by the Veterans of Foreign Wars their bodies had been exhumed...
...Bacco!" swore Boxer Carnera, "I have never fought in an undershirt and I never will...