Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Would it not be a beautiful thing if you were only coming instead of going...
Then, in 1920, came the badly managed campaign for the presidency. The General can handle almost anything from a vicious garbage situation in Havana to a strike in Gary, Ind., or a gentleman's Plattsburg. And always he has been more statesman than Tsar. But one thing he cannot do. He cannot explain himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither...
...Drys opened their rebuttal by the appearance of representatives from scores of organizations (chiefly of women) with long names, representing scores of thousands of members. Famed women such as Commander Evangeline Booth sent personal proxies. "We stand," said Mrs. Henry Peabody, "for the strongest thing in enforcement and the weakest thing in liquor...
...moved through the world last week, Death came to a flowering spot in southern California where an old man lay who had kept gardens for many years. To this old man Death was no supernatural thing. He had seen it come hundreds of thousand of times for his plants when their juices were dried up and their stalks withered. He considered it was just a "state of being" that began when an organism's vital principle ceased functioning. He regarded himself as an organism differing from the many that he had studied only in his complexity. He entertained...
...more, the boy can act. What's more than that--if you insist on something more--his lady dancing partner, Mr. Courtland Gross, is almost as good. We don't know where Gross learned to dance, still less where he discovered the subtle secret of how women charm. One thing sure, he didn't learn it playing hockey on that team which administered such a satisfactory walloping to the gentlemen from Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth. As for Wilson, all the experts in such matters swear that he has improved his last year's performance about 100 per cent. Figures talk...