Word: onward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action in "Splashing Into Society" is fast and furious. From their initial triumph in the field of poetry, the talented pair are swept onward and upward until after Lelia whitewashed the head lady tennis players, their hands are joined by the King before all the Society of England...
...Onward - during the night - to Meacham, Ore., went the Presidential party. There in the hamlet on the old Oregon Trail, high up in the Blue Mountains, the President was treated to a pageant in honor of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Trail. Oregon would like the Federal Government to make the Trail a great highway. The state has also a $50,-000,000 irrigation plan for the Government, known as the Umadillo project...
...reports from Peking there is probably not a word of truth in this contention. The Washington Post, in an editorial, humorously sums up the character of the Christian hymn-singing army: " An American officer reported that he had heard Chinese soldiers on the march singing to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, but the words meant something different. They sang the Doxology at meals, but the words referred to the duty of every Chinese to save his country from decadence and obliteration. Morning and evening they sang Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, but the words were equivalent to ' Save...
...course a few sentimental pacifists will offer a mild protest. There are always those who fail to distinguish progress. But the rest of mankind will shout "Onward Civilization!" as the watchword of an enlightened race...
Thenceforward the play moves onward to its climax by introducting a new complication: the Doctor-feeling that his wife must soon realise why he married her-consults his friend and lawyer, Mariott, concerning how she (not himself) may obtain the freedom he unturally expects her to desire. His wife overhears him and realizes that though he thinks of her feelings, he is still anxious to go to Germany. She therefore determines not to stand in his way, but to divorce him so that he may fulfill the clause in the contract. She goes with Peter to the country...