Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondent; then, dear God, a letter saying that a ham actor (Adolphe Menjou) reads TIME, followed by what appears to be an anthology compiled by some forester in praise of one of your customary impertinences; then, mianmian, "no detail is too petty to try to print correctly;" then you order a subscriber to REREAD your "political spectrum," whatever that is; the last three letters a mere waste of space; all are included because they pat your funny little paper on its curly, flea-bitten head...
...years have passed since the fall of the provisional government. But the aims of the Bolsheviki dictatorship remain as irreconcilable as ever with the fundamental life interests of Russia. Social welfare, popular enlightenment, domestic order and international security will not be assured to the Russian people as long as the Bolsheviki continue to hold Russia in the grip of their party dictatorship...
Mexico continued her orgy of rebel executions. Some faced the firing squad bravely, some even joked. General Fernando Reyes himself commanded his executioners, personally issuing the order that brought forth the stream of bullets that killed...
...following letter was received by carrier pigeon at the Crimson office late night. Since the bird was very tipsy, and had a distinct order about him, the character of the writer of the epistic was held by the editors to be dubious at best, but since the Crimson never endorses sentiments appearing over a correspondent's signature, it was argued that ho harm could come to the children from the appearance of the letter in print...
When on Commencement mooring the Sheriff of Middlesex Country comes slowly forward in front of the platform, pounds his aword three times up on the boards, and says "The assembly will now come to order," a distinct odor of the past pervades the impromptu behind Sever. For the words spoken now for many years by Sheriff Fahburn were spoken on the came occasion by his predecessors for more then a hundred years before his day. The calling to order of the "assembly" of black-gowned students, their families, and the customary "puellae" is one of the oldest of Harvard traditions...