Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant Gallishaw fought in the early part of the war with the British Forces at Gallipoli, and has set down his experiences there in his book, "Trenching at Gallipoli." He was graduated from St. Patrick's Hall School at St. Johns Newfoundland, and was a special student at the University the first half of 1914-15, the second half of 1915-16, and throughout the year in 1916-17. He went to France with the draft army and was wounded. Later, he was transferred here, taking command of Company...
...Patrick MacGill, "The Great Push...
...spite of this, Washington well deserves the affectionate title bestowed on him. He possessed an extraordinary power of leadership through the moral qualities of integrity and devotion, rather than through intellectual genius. The people admired the philosophical mind of Franklin, the political idealism of Jefferson, the fiery eloquence of Patrick Henry. Many lesser men claimed their respect and attention. But, above all, the colonies in the darkest hour trusted to the integrity of Washington. It was his devotion which sustained the Continental Army at Valley Forge and Morristown, the public confidence in his uprightness as trustee of the presidential powers...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...
...Hudson, "The Purple Land"; H. H. Knibbs, "Riders of the Stars"; E. H. Knows, "Play Production in America"; G. H. Mair, "Modern English Literature"; W. de la Mare, "The Listeners and Other Poems"; A. B. Maurice, "The New York of the Novelists"; Helen McAfee, "Pepys on the Restoration Stage"; Patrick McGill, "The Red Horizon"; E. P. Oppenheim, "The Hillman"; Arthur H. Quinn, "Representative American Plays"; Thomas H. Reed, "Form and Functions of American Government"; Elliott Richards, "Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910"; E. S. Roscoe, "Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford"; G. W. E. Russell, "Portraits of the Seventies"; Paul Sabatier...