Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other "culls" wish to subscribe with Cull Mittlefehldt to deport Henry J. Weeks? Would Henry J. Weeks accept a ticket?-ED. Ex-Buck Sirs: If the ex-Y-Tycoons; real, semi and pseudo, say they gave away 26 million francs and won the war, that's that. All you ex-bucks who believe it, stand on your head. I neither recollect nor have I ever heard of any buck who ever received, gratis, anything from the Y except - -. He got lots of that. In fact he has heard this brand of F. S. Edmonds and F. H. Jamison overseas...
...retinue likewise went its way. Major Coupal, the former White House physician, prepared to return to Washington. Everett Sanders, former Secretary to the President, went to Chicago to become a partner in the law firm from which James W. Good retired to become Mr. Hoover's Secretary of War. Edward T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's other secretary, became Vice President of Drug Inc., a subsidiary of United Drug Co., of which Louis Kroh Liggett, Republican National Committeeman of Massachusetts, is President...
...does this book try to ring the church-bells for home or country or anything else. It does not even limit itself to the more sensational patches of the war zone--dressing-stations, trenches, No Man's Land; only near the close does the action shift from various sections behind the lines to the real front, and supply the story with a satisfactory climax. Thus, the work is complete, not composed at an oblique angle; its scenes dramatic, not melodramatic. Private Suhren, withal, decidedly concerned with the fortunes of himself, of his girl, and of his three or four closest...
...sympathetic treatment of the teachings of Buddha and Zoroaster, in the admiration for the Samurai and for the innovations of the founders of the United States, and in the personal anecdotes of the author's experiences with the administrators of government in African tribes and in post-War Russia...
...book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads at the top of each page, the running together of several words in the foreign manner, and the common use of such perfectly good nouns as "ire" and "war" as verbs...