Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes a rather interesting and apt story except for one thing. I graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in the Class of 1897 and I seem to recall going from Lexington to Lynchburg in the spring of 1894 to help bury General Early; the Corps of Cadets having been designated as an Escort of Honor by the Governor of Virginia. If this is correct, General Early died something over four years before Generals Wheeler and Lee received their commissions as Major-Generals of Volunteers, U.S.A. General Early evidently had the gift of prophecy along with his many other admirable qualities...
...notoriously want the Whites to win in Spain, while the French Cabinet just as notoriously want the Vhites to lose. Those who were trying to bargain with Der Führer therefore were sharply divided and they were also frightened. According to London newspundits, the German troops in Spain seem to be moving in equipped to settle down as an Army of Occupation. Should anything like 60,000 arrive, Generalissimo Franco would simply be Dictator Hitler's puppet. Meanwhile in Germany, decrees were drafted to keep in the Fatherland all men of fighting age (18 to 45 years...
Hearstwriter Damon Runyon added in all seriousness: "Journalism has lost its all-time No. 1 genius. ... It doesn't seem possible. It doesn't seem possible that with so many Lilliputians of humanity on the face of the globe, this giant has been removed...
...good ghost story except a ghost. To compensate for this deficiency, most of the large cast of characters who figure in Shining Scabbard are a shadowy and illusive folk, bearing so little resemblance to ordinary humans they might easily be mistaken for apparitions, and engaged in actions that seem far better suited to the nether regions than to solid earth...
...were usually split with factional fights among their directors, riddled with graft. They organized and abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their ceaseless struggles at home. Although John Smith and Pocahontas appear in Professor Andrews' chapters on Virginia, they receive less attention than the tobacco trade, seem scarcely more significant than a strange stock company known as "The Society of Particular Adventurers for Traffique with Virginia" which was formed to exploit the colonists. Also novel in Professor Andrews' first volume was his analysis of the human material of the colonies, those "lascivious sonnes, masters...