Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restless at the inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling to get practice he soon decided to enter the army as surgeon, and in 1885 was sent to the Mexican border. There he served under General Miles and more immediately under Captain Lawton in the pursuit of Geronimo and his Apache band. Owing to the shortage of line officers, but more particularly to his desire for active service, he acted temporarily as a line officer, and for the highest courage in that disheartening and dangerous pursuit was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Later...
...interest on the interplay of incident. To put William S. Hart on the stage and confine him almost exclusively to words, would be to revive the old bombastic melodrama, where, instead of seeing the hero jump onto his trusty horse and dash madly up and down mountain sides in pursuit of the villain, we should have the heroine gazing out a painted window from which she would turn now and then to gasp to us, "There he goes, there he goes, My God, My God, over a ditch, he's getting nearer, he's getting nearer ... ah.. my brave...
...that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...