Word: onwardness
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...cavalcade of kings and queens goes onward past the Great War and up to the present time. At last with striving it takes an upward course once more. A gray haired couple whose sons are gone drink a toast to "dignity, greatness, and peace." Outside the New Year throngs sing "Auld Lang Syne" and there is a light on the cross above St. Paul...
...great man was explaining the custom of "plucking," but the Vagabond heard not. Somewhere in the vague hinterland beyond the anti-macasser and the cupped ear was a rocking chair. The distance, he remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom...
...constantly arising for decision and the old, with slight variations, are being re-examined and distinguished in the light of newer interest and popular sympathy which subconsciously influence judicial decision. Progress is not constant and steady. There are advances and then reactionary relapses, but the general movement is onward and upward...
From Cleveland's Union Terminal President & party were whisked directly to the Public Auditorium where Calvin Coolidge, amid colored lights and "Onward, Christian Soldiers," was nominated in 1924. Assembled on the floor, in the basement, annex and siderooms were some 30,000 persons. The President was quickly introduced by David Sinton Ingalls, his young onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, now Ohio's Republican gubernatorial nominee...
...personally something of an agnostic, who does not smoke, nor drink, nor chew, nor play cards, a man whose election would sound the death-knell of the liquor traffic." Delegate Richard Cannon of California, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., seconded the Borah nomination. The organ played "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and the delegates paraded up and down the aisles...