Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first tragedy of my life was when the man I loved and should have married was made a prisoner early in the War. Now I am fond of nobody and have no feelings?I only adore...
Mexitl was the God of War; the deity the most honored by the Mexicans?Storia Antico del Mexico...
...great and furious war god after whom their land is named, Mexicans again paid costly homage last week?by flying at each others' throats. There is no surer way of pleasing God Mexitl (see map). Exalted in that one of the 13 heavens which is his own?the fiery blue heaven, where the din of ghastly battle never ceases?this old pagan deity may well have looked down, last week, upon his people and exulted, "How little they have changed...
...Hypnotized Rabbit." From all this it must not be supposed that the causes of the present civil war are purely religious. There is also the very strong if not major element of personal rivalry?"dog eat dog" ?among Mexico's many men of the sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean...
Evidence of the great business done by publishers of "sets" lies with the promoters of Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc.?Walter F. Austin (president) and Charles Lipscomb (treasurer). They, with one Vincent Parke, publish Great Events of the Great War. Because the American Legion endorses the book and hence gives book agents a talking point and entry to Legionary homes, the Legion gets 3% on each sale. Its income so far amounts to $135,907.45, which means $4,500,000 worth of books sold by the publishers and more than $1,000,000 in commissions for the salesmen...