Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other organization of any war ever had over one-fifth of their eligibles, and we have better than one of every three living. Last year at Des Moines we had two delegates from Manila, and one from one of our two camps in China. This time we had none. Why should we not stick our chests out at times and be proud to wear the bronze button, which, by the way, is made from metal taken from the Old U. S. S. Maine. which started the whole dam thing. AUSTIN C. ROWELL...
...Blasco Ibaņez, none the poorer, absconded from Buenos Aires, and now no more dares show his face there than in Mexico. In both places, far from 'founding schools and colleges,' he has left outstand ing a long and painful score...
...other on military affairs, as well as a cabinet. This new regime marks the beginning of a new future for the Nationalist cause, i. e., the unification of China under a single democratic and Nationalist government, but how bright that future is with strong Northern forces dominating it, none can predict. It marks, too, a definite break with Moscow and Bolshevism and leaves the movement apparently free of internal dissension...
...Bernard Shaw said to the old lady from Nantucket. The one astounding exception to this rule is found in the poetry of Humbert Wolfe, a young Briton whose work has actually inserted itself into the lists of best sellers. Possessed of a dexterous though partly imitative technique, it has none of the raucous and hurtling sentiment which usually gives poetry a popular appeal. The music of his verses is delicate and blurred; his gentle comments on saints and harlots, soldiers and nuns, unlike his previous satire, seems too wan to provoke a storm either of praise or censure...
...smote the first goal and the U. S. team led the British team. Hitchcock Jr. smote the second goal; and the third. He smote five goals in the game; J. Watson Webb smote two; Devereux Milburn, U. S. captain, one. Malcolm Stevenson, fourth player on the team, smote none, but played valiantly. In the seventh chukker he slipped from his horse and lay, a white figure, on the green grass. His knee. struck by a fiercely-driven ball, was paralyzed. He rose; walked around; remounted; finished the game...