Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...time, a full account of the life of one of the most interesting of American soldiers and writers. In youth a romantic poet, Mr. Higginson became in early life a Unitarian clergyman of power and effectiveness. Later, in command of the first colored regiment raised for service in the Civil War, he had some military experience of exceptional interest. In later life, as a many-sided man of letters, his relations with writers in both England and America were extraordinarily close and varied. Few Americans of the nineteenth century touched American life at more points than Colonel Higginson. With portrait...
Next in order of merit we would select "The Blue and the Grey," a story of the Civil War. That familiar piece of fiction which has for its theme the young southern officer, carrying despatches amid impossible difficulties, the Battle of Gettysburg and the tiresome elaboration about the relative positions of the opposing forces, is here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual...
...conservatism is supporting old Cambridge against the inroads of the feminine world; Radcliffe is held up to English girls as a model of what should be. Sir Geoffrey seeks no further evidence from America; or is it a rare tact that restrains him from even a whisper of that civil was that is raging "far above Cayuga's waters...
...attitude of the New England states toward this California problem is analogous to their attitude toward the South for the several decades immediately after the Civil War. They do not see why two utterly different and incompatible racial groups cannot lie down together like lambs. The fact of race hatred, like any other of the irrational and abstractedly reprehensible dispositions of man, cannot be wished or argued away. In order that this fact may appear it is necessary that the incompatible races should be actually in contact, working and competing with one another. It appears in the West for this...
...positions offered are of several different types, including office work sales managing, the work of organizing and developing properties, civil, mechanical, mining, and other forms of engineering. Men are wanted, who intend to remain in the service for at least three years, but no written agreement is required...