Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The Americans are bad losers. They have had control of too many raw products like wheat, oil, cotton and tobacco to take it coolly when the other fellow happens to get something they haven't got." As a matter of fact if the U. S. could apply to farm produce...
ARMS AND THE MAN?The same Shaw's nudge at the ribs of war. The polite and pointed forerunner of What Price Glory.
"It was made clear, contrary to statements in the daily press, that Harvard was not protesting against the simplicity of the song, but against its lack of real musical validity. And again contrary to statements in the press, it was pointed out that while Dr. Davison had promised Harvard support...
On Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during...
A few hours later the long arm of the British secret service had reached out and seized him. For months Mr. Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was...