Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reads the Thousand and One Nights, learns to set type, begins writing prose and verse for Brooklyn sheetlets, the Star, the Patriot. When city life irks?even New York with John Jacob Astor tinkling through it in his sleigh?he leaves his compositor's stool to go down the Island and teach in rural schools?at Flushing, Woodbury, Whitestone. He is loved everywhere, a big gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain...
Harvard men have always stood with their country in time of war. During the revolution Harvard not only sent many of its students into the patriot army, but also seriously impaired its finances by converting its funds into currency with which to aid the cause Harvard's honor roll of the civil war and the world war is a long...
...complications make this less attractive to the patriot and one hundred per cent national publicity agent than casual glance could suggest. For South Bend is alter all but one city in one part of the country. What hope then is there for all the other cities in all the other parts? Though one can boast of local morals and another of local anesthetics. South Bend alone can boast of twins joined together in infancy, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see with your own eyes. So an era of provincial inferiority complexes awaits those cities who see no future...
...read: "To Ignace Jan Paderewski, artist, patriot and humanitarian, with the highest esteem of the American Legion, New York...
...housewife whose husband comes a bit unsteadily home point at him the finger of scorn, for if he has been drinking German wine he has done a patriotic duty and he may well smite his breast and proudly assert the fact." '"Formerly all true Germans were called upon to lay down their lives upon the field of battle, which they gladly did. Today I call upon every patriot to drink more wine...