America's Day: Studies in Light and ShadeDodd, Mead, 1918 - 425 страница |
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... seen shaken and distorted , like a reverend friend that foamed with sudden epilepsy . I cannot speak of America's won- der , for the sight so dazed her that " Keep Away " was a compelling instinct which quelled all the rest . . . . The ...
... seen shaken and distorted , like a reverend friend that foamed with sudden epilepsy . I cannot speak of America's won- der , for the sight so dazed her that " Keep Away " was a compelling instinct which quelled all the rest . . . . The ...
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... seen it more clearly than her own First President , whose " Keep Out " policy in regard to Old - World tangles took a new lease when the rape of Belgium began with headlong fury ? The prairie farmer gave Woodrow Wil- son a second ...
... seen it more clearly than her own First President , whose " Keep Out " policy in regard to Old - World tangles took a new lease when the rape of Belgium began with headlong fury ? The prairie farmer gave Woodrow Wil- son a second ...
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... seen just enough to tantalize . . . . And there's no sound like the scream of enemy shrapnel through the sky . " Or hear another paladin - young Julian Gren- fell , " when the burning moment breaks " - " And all things else are out of ...
... seen just enough to tantalize . . . . And there's no sound like the scream of enemy shrapnel through the sky . " Or hear another paladin - young Julian Gren- fell , " when the burning moment breaks " - " And all things else are out of ...
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... seen in America's unreadiness for all her wars . What alarmed her advisers in 1916 was that the first onset of a modern enemy might be a lightning stroke , like the German sweep towards Paris . Leisurely war was a thing of the past ; so ...
... seen in America's unreadiness for all her wars . What alarmed her advisers in 1916 was that the first onset of a modern enemy might be a lightning stroke , like the German sweep towards Paris . Leisurely war was a thing of the past ; so ...
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... seen how it will stand the strain of those vast complications upon which the country is now entering . " In other words , America was at the parting of the ways , and her men on watch had a delicate task to break the unwelcome news to ...
... seen how it will stand the strain of those vast complications upon which the country is now entering . " In other words , America was at the parting of the ways , and her men on watch had a delicate task to break the unwelcome news to ...
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