Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scout movement, that there are close to one million Boy Scouts doing a Good Turn da'ly? Does he realize that these boys will be the men of the future generation and that because of their training there will not be any such catastrophe as the World War, in which millions of men were killed? If Reader Knapp can recall 365 good deeds, in any year during his boyhood, he surely would be more broad-minded than he is today...
Professor Gustavus W. Dyer, Vanderbilt University, broke a bomb in the national veneration for F. F. V.'s.* He said that study of Southern politics proved that Virginia before the Civil War was dominated by the middle class. Seven Governors were "aristocrats by courtesy only." He adduced other statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city...
...Judge Elbert H. Gary died in Manhattan at 81, the, as yet, unretired board chairman of the largest corporation in the world U. S. steel. He read law in his Uncle Henry's (Colonel Henry Valetted) office at Naperville, Ill., after returning from volunteer service in the Civil War...
...commonplaces, none is more spectacular than calling the U. S. a "melting pot." The Noyes wrapping for this household article is "new united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee...
...lectured also at many a U. S. college and Princeton invited him to stay on as visiting professor. The similarity between Princeton and his own Oxford did not escape him. He accepted, lectured often and melodiously, wrote verse about Princeton in the Revolution and in the then-brewing World War. Prior to The Torchbearers, his most cele brated poem was Drake, an epic of British empire-building. Aged 47, Mr. Noyes lives in London, sensitive, earnest, fond of swimming. Mrs. Noyes (Garnett Daniels) is the daughter of a U. S. Army colonel...