Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME [Sept. 12] I was pleased to read the article you had on the late National Encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans at Detroit. You seemed to see something in us which the average man in the U. S. has missed for the past years. . . . The men you saw at Detroit had an average term of service of 16 months, compared with eleven for the Civil War and nine for the World War. A great many of them were regulars, and also large numbers were not in the Spanish War proper, being too young to successfully lie about their...
...National Commander Howard Paul Savage. It was their privilege and duty to reiterate many a time the official aims and loftiest sentiments of the Legion's "pilgrimage." Over and over they rephrased, genuinely and impressively, the ideals that sent the A. E. F. abroad, the French valor that it saw there, the friendships that it formed there, the faith that the Legion returned to pledge there...
...words his great-great-grandfather had written so long ago. Corsica, land of hot skies and almost savage peasants, lifted its little mountains on the moors beyond the window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor's writings and put them...
...huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal to the finals. They pointed to jets of cigaret smoke issuing from the obviously nervous nose of Mrs. Horn. This was no way to win a test of physical skill and mental poise, they reasoned. They saw Mrs. Horn complete her first round with the shocking score of 88. But Mrs. Orcutt had completed the round with an evermore shocking score of 91, and was 2 down. When Miss Orcutt sliced her losing margin to a single hole on the afternoon 18, the gallery shook their heads...
...house of English language books and periodicals in the world." Asked the purpose of the merger, Frank N. Doubleday said: "To sell more books." Many years ago an office boy for the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, dreamed a dream. Thirty years ago (in 1897) he saw his dream come true. Frank N. Doubleday (with $25,000 borrowed money) had established a concern for the dissemination of books. George Henry Doran also was a stubbornly ambitious office boy- in Toronto and Chicago publishing houses. In 1909 he founded his own publishing company. The new Doubleday, Doran...