Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ In the East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S...
Less and less do Marine-manned outposts demark a U. S. Empire upon which the sun never sets. They are but the military manifestation of that empire and for every Marine spending Christmas away from home this year there are more U. S. civilians abroad than ever before. From countless...
The Army. To bulwark its empire the U. S. has posted 14,228 Army officers and men in Hawaii, 8,784 in the Canal Zone, 5,770 (exclusive of the Scouts) in the Philippines, 1,012 at Tientsin, China. One hundred and fifty U. S. Army engineers are spending Christmas...
Missionaries. Christmas spirit was, of course, zealously upheld in many a foreign land by 12,283 U. S. missionaries?8,363 in Asia, 2,160 in Latin America, 1,689 m Africa, 71 in Australia and Oceanica.
At the tempest's end, U. S. citizens home for Christmas disembarked, sleepless, stiff, scared, after the worst crossing any of them had ever remembered. Passengers on the ponderous Berengaria told how their ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house...