Word: onwardness
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From Harding's time onward it has been one of the chief duties of presidents to veto bonus legislation. But $3000 a head for each soldier killed or wounded in the war is not enough tribute, according to the beneficiaries, the living. "Gimme, gimme", is the unending cry of the veterans, Who for the most part never saw a German shell. "I wore a uniform, didn...
...disturbed, but too late. Japanese drove the Young Marshal out and set up as Emperor of Manchukuo erstwhile Mr. Henry Pu Yi. His Majesty did not summon Butterfly Wu to his new Court. She, as a Chinese Cinema Queen, has continued onward & upward. The height of her ambition was to marry wealth. Came last week tidings of her wedding in Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, to a wealthy Christian wine merchant named Eugene Penn...
...such as believing that once a man or woman signs our pledge it will make him or her a same and careful driver, but we do feel, and we know from actual experience, that persons signing this pledge will stop and think, whereas before they might have plunged recklessly onward. If their stopping and thinking saves one life and the sorrow which the loss of that person will cause in his immediate family, the campaign has been successful...
...ways of local air currents, the Polish pilots shot far higher than the visiting contestants, soon found a strong easterly breeze. Next day, over the Russian border, a squadron of Soviet airplanes swooped down upon them, fired warning salvos for 40 minutes. Stanchly, the Poles refused to land. Onward, for two days more, they floated unreported toward the Caspian Sea, as all the other balloons jolted one by one to earth. Finally. Polonia came down, 1,000 miles from Warsaw and winner by nearly 100 miles. Thus Poland got permanent possession of the fourth Bennett trophy...
From 6 p. m. onward massive Berlin males and their ample women ambled perspiring into the city's greatest sport arena until it was jampacked, then gathered about loudspeakers in adjoining squares until fully 50,000 were ready for the evening's treat. As a prelude massed Storm Troops chanted an earnest little Hymn of Hate. Cried the choral leader: "We must unite against the Enemy of Humanity." Chorus: "It is the Jew!" Leader: "We must crush those who combine everything bad." Chorus...