Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentimental about all these names. They left behind a tale all their own, a tale half finished and inarticulate. Vaguely, the Vagabond thought of Gray in his church yard erecting for himself false gods. How many of these craftsmen had gone out to live unwept, unhonored, and unsung. How many had left only crude initials to tell the world that they had lived. How many, when looking back through the years, must feel that the only lance that they had broken in the tournament of life was a penknife on a Holworthy dado. But there was some great names...
...Unsung Heroes. With a telephone headset clamped on his skull, President Hoover dominated the negotiations in Paris last week almost as completely as though he had been there like Theodore Roosevelt with a Big Stick. French papers again accused the President of roughness, rudeness and big stickery?but their tone was less angry than at first...
...list of unsung heroes, such as the man who first ate a spear of asparagus, the Vagabond would like to add the name of that worthy who yesterday braving the derisive glances of passers-by and all unmindful of the blustering west wind, pushed a lawn-mower resolutely across the sodden greensward of Dunster House. A week of balmy weather, a brace of robins, a succession of hour exams, these are the signs which are supposed to usher in the springtime season, but the Vagabond has too often been misled by such fickle prophets in the past. With a rather...
...pine tree on the hills of Maryland-through many summers' heats and winters' snows, Felled, carted, quartered, sawn, a metamorphosis within a week. And then a century buried deep within the White House walls, Unseen, unsung, but one of myriads holding firm together the storied structure. Until, a new age came and replaced steel for wood, then months upon the dump, The dump cart actually arrived jor one last ride- And then a rescue...
...Army game last year. But it has Captain Ticknor, the All-American center, and Wood, its brainy quarterback who has lately developed into a triple threat back. The Army counters with a veteran line that practically played as a unit in the game last year and a trio of unsung but experienced Sophomores in the backfield...