Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post at Lawrenceville Academy. He has divulged the title of his new novel to come, "The Woman of Andros" and will sail for Europe early in July, obstensibly to write it, probably to get away from friends who want to know what it is all about. "Cabala" is enjoying a form...
...soldier of the Senate. He is a lawyer, too, but inheritance tacked onto his name all kinds of military designations, making him a Son of the American Revolution, and a Son of the Confederate Veterans. He himself stepped from the presidency of the St. Louis Police Board to a post as representative of the republic of Hawaii during the annexation proceedings in 1899. Later he became a major in the Military Intelligence Department, and went to Spain as assistant military attache...
...came the entrance of the United States into the war, and Hoover's appointment first as Food Administrator in this country, then as director of food supplies for the Allied Powers. In 1921 came the Harding Administration and Hoover's appointment as Secretary of Commerce, a post which he has now held seven years...
...Klux Klan is sure that Smith's foreign policy would be to deliver the United States into the hands of Rome. There are other observers who cite Smith's refusal to be swept off his feet in the post-war Bolshevist hysteria as proof that if he were elected President he would show foresight liberality, and cool-headedness in his foreign policy, that he would leave this department of the Government largely in the hands of his advisers...
...General Characteristics of Modern Sculpture," Professor Post, New Fogg Museum...