Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insurrection on the Philippines and the China Relief Expedition." . . . Now if you really want to know what in a few years put the something in us, which would bring together 20,000 of the living from the original 436,000 in service from 1898 to 1902, I will tell you. We are of 100% voluntary service, every man a soldier in his heart as well as body. We have about 100,000 in the organization and are growing at the rate of about 10,000 a year. No other organization of any war ever had over one-fifth of their...
...explained they were not Negroes but Creoles, and, moreover, French citizens, although Brazilian born, and artists. They were members of a French troupe then residing in Rome, they said. "I told this to Mayor Walker and he accepted the explanation. I also asked a friend of mine to tell the Brazilians not to dance any more because I didn't want any fuss. They left off dancing." ¶ Among the Mayor's shipmates were Negress singer Florence Mills, conductor Walter Damrosch, cartoonist Rube Goldberg, conductor Sergi Koussevitzky. The Mayor was auctioneer for the ship's pool...
...former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...have a positive answer as I am quite dependent on you. ... I would share a kingdom with you if I had it. . . ." Peggy, who later watched her husband chasing every young woman he met, who heard true rumors about his three bastards, wrote back briefly, beautifully, to tell Jimmy Boswell that she would marry...
Perhaps, such enthusiasm is synthetic, but the Mid-West must shout their claim to fame along with the East and West if they are going to "tell it to the world." The Purdue Exponent, September...