Word: normans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book--a serious book even--is inevitably rather futile in combating such a tremendous problem, because the thing just can't be done so easily Milne's book is the cream of the anti-war arguments thus far in circulation, however, much better than such a thing as Norman Thomas's "War," and should serve some purpose as educational material...
...YEARS before the United States entered the World War, James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff separately were occasional contributors to the Atlantic Monthly. This was not enough to make them famous, nor a living. Only Nordhoff seemed to care at the time about living. In 1916 he was in the tile manufacturing business in California. James Norman Hall that same year miraculously returned alive to London. He had enlisted in 1914 as a British machine gunner and had gone to Belgium with England's first army. The Germans called this army "The Contemptibles," and practically annihilated it. Hall...
After the war it was natural that Nordhoff should return to Boston. He had been a quiet Harvard man who played a guitar and mandolin and read a good deal. James Norman Hall, the lowan, came to Boston with him. Both hated business and post war America, and liked writing and fishing. They therefore settled in Tahiti in 1920, wrote the history of the Lafayette Flying Corps and a novel, Falooms of France...
...representatives of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, California, Missouri, Illinois and Texas, met to form a new party, the "Social Democratic Federation of the U. S." on "democratic socialist principles and seeking to unite all farmers and workers with hand or brain." Said Norman Thomas bitterly: "I can almost find it in my heart to be sorry for them. ... At best it is a face-saver. At worst it is a mere spite party doomed to futility." Left to itself, the remainder of the Socialist party shouted down an invitation to join the Communists on a common ticket. Slated for adoption...
Coming into the finals with only five qualifiers, after Norman Cahners had been shut out of the hammer throw, the Crimson was able only to score 19 16-21 points to the 29 1-2 of Cornell, while Dartmouth was in third place by a margin of 5-21 of a point...