Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient Amazons, whose lives were largely war, used to remove their right breasts to facilitate their archery...
Died. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling (retired), 85, of Baltimore, Civil War veteran, father of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commander of the Yangtze patrol of the U. S. Asiatic fleet; in Baltimore...
Conflict. Even at this late date the War's casualties continue very real in health clinics and on the stage. This is the story of the hero who won his halo largely through lack of imagination, only to find that it would not fit on the hatrack back home. It is an exceedingly interesting study of the blind arrogance of one of the War's own children in conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence...
ACTION-C. E. Montague-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Director and constant contributor to the Manchester Guardian, the late C. E. Montague is better known in this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short...
...Prince that sought his lady love in a tall tower east of the sun and west of the moon. At the present time there are still many young people who are searching for an ideal that seems to be just as securely hidden. The modern youth movement since the war has been attempting to turn the world upside down to find its princess of liberty, and there is every indication that she too is hiding in that ancient stone tower. At any rate, the governments of Europe especially are tiring of this excitement, so the Communistic party in Russia...