Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future than ever it has been in the past. . . . The President's message is largely a counsel of dormancy. Nowhere is there the stimulating call for progress." His program, as far as outlined in his speech, is: 1) "Action"; 2) Tax reduction, especially on earned income; 3) a soldier bonus; 4) opposition to the Administration's lack of "constructive thought" on the railway question. He, too, has entered for the South Dakota primaries...
...husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much more to his taste than those of the willful child he has married that the course of true love would undoubtedly run smooth were it not that the elderly Empress cannot resist the temptation to captivate her young soldier. He, too, discovers imperial experience outweighs youthful naivete and the poor little Princess is left lamenting...
...soldier who prepares for a "peaceful conquest of Russia...
...procession was headed by the Duke of York and the occasion was the installation of the Unknown Soldier as Grand Master of the Order. The ceremony was highly impressive. On entering the Abbey the Order was met by the clergy and choir, all dressed in medieval habits, and they and some of the Order proceeded up che main aisle to the high altar where the Pro-Grand Master received an offering of gold from the Almoner and presented it to the Dean, who dedicated it. Then sounded a joyous fanfare of trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet : "At Gardone, Italy, I stayed in my garden while rain was falling and a terrific wind blowing. When members of my household urged me to take shelter from the elements, I replied: 'I must hear the sound of the waves, the whistle of the wind and the fall of the raindrops. To write one must be next to nature!' Next day found me in bed with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Said the Daily News, New York newspaper: 'What our poets need most is not to get next to nature...