Word: powdered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...artist's feeling for the inevitable phrase--all these qualities combine to make it an enduring contribution to literature. The truth about war, Dr. Shepard points out, is not to be found in Othello's "Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!" but rather in Falstaff's "food for powder, food for powder." And this is the truth that the poets of the present war have expressed. In his "Dead Boche" Robert Graves writes...
...LeRoy de Chaumont, father of the young gentleman who will have the honor of waiting on you with this, was the first in France who gave us credit, and before the court showed us any countenance, trusted us with 2,000 barrels of gun powder, . . . . which for want of due returns, they being of great amount, has finally much distressed him in his circumstances...
...best limerick is on the front cover. The best advertisement is on the back cover. The best poem is Colonel House's auto-eulogy. The best joke is the one about the inebriate and the soap advertisement. As the drug clerk said of the seidlitz powder, it isn't half...
...this war, and scores of costly collisions between vessels have occurred. But never has an explosion on board ship had the disastrous effect of this one. It is supposed that the Mont Blanc carried a huge amount of the new explosive, trinitrotuluol, T.N.T., a glistening pale-yellow powder, as potent as nitroglycerine, though safer to handle. Moreover, the situation of the ship in the half-mile-wide Narrows, between two rising shores, seems to have caused the blast to rake the city with peculiar effectiveness...
Next week members of the Corps will smell their first powder, and hear their first rifle volleys, when one battalion begins target practice at Wakefield. The work of drill, which is monotonous to the point of becoming mechanical during the early weeks, has become intensely varied and interesting. The target practice which will be undertaken by succeeding battalions has in it something, however feeble, of the tumult and thrill...