Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patriotism is one of the prime factors in the making of a one hundred per cent American citizen. This is forcibly brought to mind by a shocking oversight among the authorities. Good citizenship and loyalty are inextricably woven into one another, forming that solid and enduring core in every American's heart that makes him spontaneously whip off his hat when Old Glory comes marching down the street fluttering its red and white stripes to the bounding breeze. What a thrill the sight of Our Flag sends coursing through the red blood of every true citizen. "Hats off! The flag...
...Build a new bowl within the miles of Boston in some naturally drained and topographically perfect piece of land where it can be supported by solid earth...
...last fortnight, one man's voice was heard in the U. S. Senate for more than a solid hour. He told as horrid a story as the Senate had heard in years, a story of "dark evils of bloody warfare, sickness, suffering, hardship, privation, want and hunger. . . ." It was Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California describing, not without politico-oratorical flourishes, the condition which Pennsylvania permitted its two-and-a-half-year-old coal strike to reach this winter (TIME...
When the Democratic National Committee chose Houston, Tex., last week for its 1928 convention city, it was really the choice of a solid North, calculating to coax an uncertain South. San Francisco, Detroit and Cleveland were eager bidders. Houston won, with a small auditorium and ominous late-June climate, for three reasons...
Under Fannie Hurst's pen, David Schuyler is born great, that is, he is endowed with extremely unnatural characteristics from the earliest days. He is a little too square and solid, a little oppressive. This aspect is not helped by the other characterizations. They are all a little overdone, and being too cut and dried, they do not wear well. The style contributes to this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey...