Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolved to be master of all, The near and the distant, the great and the small; And I plainly perceive you will not be at rest, Till you've conquered all lands, both East and West. So Egypt is yours; your ambition then ranges, And bears you away to the Tigris and Ganges. But when crown'd with success, and with glory you tire us, What's left to be done when return'd to Epirus...
...Cross her lifework, for 35 years its driving force. In 1904 Clara Barton's Red Cross was gallant, revered, but loosely knit and fundless. That was the year the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House said to a young Washington society leader: "You've been appointed to the executive committee of the Red Cross...
...ve never in my life had such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...
...signs: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, DODGE DIVISION) was the husky, jut-jawed Chrysler general manager whom Walter Chrysler described to his biographer, Boyden Sparkes, as "a great production man." That night at Detroit "K. T." had stayed close to the phone and when Walter Chrysler called from New York ("We've bought the Dodge-put up your signs") he knew what to do. Within a year he was president of Dodge and his brilliant production methods, stemming from the machine-shop where he had worked as a horny-handed mechanic, were driving Chrysler spectacularly into then motor's Big Three...
...Minneapolis, a policeman nabbed one Marcia Schneider for speeding. "Where do you think you're going, to a fire?" said he. "No, I've got one with me," said she, pointing to a blaze in the back...