Word: ters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Hughie, the leading philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...
American history should be as adaptable to musical interpretation as is French, Italian, German, or Hungarian. This idea is recurrent in his long series of works, which reached its height in the music of the Ter-centenary Celebration at Plymouth. In Mr. Gilbert's lecture tonight will meet traditions already builded and those still unformed. Because the union is probably an impermanent one, it should be remarked at this opprtunity...
...else that thinks of it, can help to have lasting credit given where due. You can do what many another has done under similar circumstances and write to the Hero Fund Commission, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Commission will acknowledge your let ter, ask your references, investigate the fiery rescue and, unless it is an unusual year for heroism, your hero is likely to receive a Carnegie Medal, the only award of its kind in the U. S. made by an organization other than a club or the Government...
...like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
...contrary to what most people believe". The crash had already come, peasants had revolted, murdered land owners, and seized land, the Russian army had dissolved, railroads had stopped and factories had closed the return to say agery had begun before the Bolsheviki finally came on the scene. In a ter months the Bolsheviki established the Soviet Government, spread a Red army all over Russia and Siberia, and righted all the evils. This is the greatest single achievement in contemporary history and was largely due to Lenine, incomparably the greatest statesman the modern world has ever known...