Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris Post of the Legion called him for saying that American graves were being dishonored, "reviled" was the word he used - "he had no information himself - he hadn't seen a single grave," but he did shoot his mouth off for the front pages. A fine fellow, this Caraway, who for a little of the front page would pour salt on a wound already open...
...want to tell you how fine I think the 'Passaic' number of The Christian Century was. I had been following the strike with great interest and had read every word I could find, but I have found nothing that seemed so impartial and clarifying and truthful as your survey of the situation...
...poor house, something dead on the bed . . . old checks, thumb-marked, rubber-stamped, checks for enormous sums made out in furtive or in precise or pompous or illiterate calligraphies to a person named "Stephenson". . . . A man hissing through the disinfected bars of a prison cell a word so soft that his listener could hardly hear him. "The swine . . . the swine...
True to his word, Sir Alan set out by air next day for Manchester. There the Lord Mayor and Corporation waited to banquet him anew. Hours passed. He did not arrive. Alarm mounted...
...these lines to you, for the true Harvard man must at all times preserve his traditional indifference, but there are times when one tradition must be set aside to preserve another. In this matter the only stimulus that will arouse the student body to proper action is a vigorous word from your columns...