Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum. And such crudities as "war boats" and wan dirge" make one suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters like the "famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor in of the "swan dirge" expression stands on a level with...
...vivid though extraneous feature of the public session was a description by Admiral Earl Jellicoe of the War-time exploits of the German raider Berlin-exploits which correspondents often described, during the War, only to have their despatches "killed" by Allied censors. Lord Jellicoe admitted, last week, that the Berlin once ducked unperceived through eight battle squadrons of the British Grand fleet and proceeded to lay mines which later sank the potent British battle cruiser Audacious...
WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER, 42, Kansas City, Mo.; active as pastor; was Y.M.C.A. truck driver in the War...
Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...
...first volume, "The Agricultural Era," carries the story to the pre-Civil War period, from which "The Industrial Era" continues it to the present. The second volume is perhaps the more important, dealing with a less colorful period but one through which fewer able historians have ventured. Authors Beard write in what has been regarded as the proper manner for historians since Tacitus published his Annals, with taciturn detachment, thoughtful compactness, dignity...