Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eleven years ago today I was riding at the head of a squadron of Indian Cavalry past the ruins of an old Crusaders' fortress at Latron. The regiment was on its way to participate in what was probably the greatest mounted action in history, to drive the Turks out of Palestine...
...east of us was Lawrence with his Arabs. In the ditches as we marched past lay hundreds of Londoners and Indians of the 60th Division, some with their legs in the road and their heads in the ditch, twisted into ghastly contortions, utterly exhausted, racked with malaria and dysentery. With us marched our comrades of Allenby's Desert Mounted Corps, the many regiments of Australian Light Horse, regiments of lean gaunt men from whose lives pestilence had exacted more than wounds and trench warfare...
...Claire's personal glances into the pages of history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion...
...case of most Harvard institutions, the activities centering in the Brooks House have undergone many changes in form during the past 20 years, without any appreciable change in aims and ideals. Originally most of the work at the house was conducted by a number of religious groups, such as the St. Paul's Episcopal Society. St. Paul's Catholic Club, a missionary society, and others of like nature. More recently, however, the tendency has been away from the mystical and devotional side of religion toward an increasing emphasis on the service or "good works" aspect of religion. The activities...
...today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long delayed, and it may be consoling to the friends of China that it may turn out for the best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture has to offer, it can only be by learning the methods by which it has been built up. China will be a happier land when it has succeeded in taking its place...