Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gradually, slyly. They nipped the flanks, punished the weak spots in Grant's army of 120,000. Always Lee divined Grant's plans; always Grant's losses were heavier. The quiet man in gray who never touched tobacco, rarely tasted liquor and never used a curse-word, persistently outguessed the smoking, drinking, swearing leader from the North. All the next winter Grant was held to the line where he had vowed to "fight it out if it takes all summer...
...have lived long because I could laugh at anything," Chauncey Depew used to say. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst writer, who usually has a pat last word to say on any subject, observed that Napoleon, who seldom laughed, did not live 93 years but that "he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his 94 years...
...statements and certainly there is no man in the United States today better qualified to talk. ... It also might be stated without fear of contradiction that Mr. Barron is one of the most difficult men in Palm Beach to catch for an interview. . . . However, when he was cornered-the word is well chosen-in his sunny apartment in Whitehall overlooking Lake Worth yesterday morning, he graciously consented to talk on anything from Wall Street to the human ear-the latter being one of his absorbing interests at present...
...line or a word, an innuendo or a criticism . . . that can offend or displease," is the new editorial policy of this society weekly...
Some days previously, without a word even to their kin, the three had flown to Ireland from Berlin's great centre of aeronautics, Tempelhof. Thermos bottles filled with coffee and a loaded revolver formed their only baggage. . . . "We land on Mitchell Field or heaven...