Word: said
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...banker once said, "If I could place to the credit of each man and woman in the community a savings deposit of one dollar I could make thrifty thousands where there have been only thousands of spenders, and I could build the greatest bank per population in the land...
...thing for America to do is to support the war," said Secretary Baker in his first public statement after returning from his trip to the battle lines of Europe, last week. "The right arm of America is in France, bared and ready to strike hard. The body is here in the United States, and it must support and invigorate that...
...prose, Mr. Hill's "Repatriation Service in France" lacks finish, but makes up for the lack by sincerity and substance: Mr. Eastman's "After the Dance" is a short fanciful sketch. "Death and the devil," it may be fairly said, have "done for the rest." J. D. writes with sardonic force on suicide; Mr. Williams depicts vituperative Frenchmen "bandying jovial indecencies" till the order comes: "All sections roll tomorrow at four. ***Trenchbombs." Mr. Sparks tells of an aviator killed in an accident and of the French girl who mourned him. As in many stories that deal with passion, the author...
...flight commander sent me up and said: 'Ely around for an hour'; so here I am, with a board on one knee to write on. Isn't this a novel letter? I see an- other machine over the town doing circles. I guess it's Tom --. We were told to meet at 2000 feet over the town and fly around together. I'm at 5000, and I'm going to dive to 2000 and wave at him. Whee. Motor off, stick forward, and down we go! Gad, its bumpy down here at 2000! It's Tom all right, because...
...people of America must put the idea of 'doing their bit' out of their minds at once, as England did after said experience with that catch phrase," said Captain Louis Keene, C. E. F., commandant of the Dartmouth Battalion, and author of the British war novel "Crumps," when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter recently. "If the country relies upon each person doing his bit, we will lose the war. It is necessary for every man, woman and child in the Allied nations to do his and her utmost--and then some, if we are to be victorious...