Word: roosevelt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Average Americans! Roosevelt hits it, and yet he doesn't hit it, in his title. Who are the average Americans? Are they the men of the A. E. F., always ready to work twenty-five hours a day; to give their lives up to prove their Americanism; with a sense of team play, a sense of help the other fellow and get there, never surpassed; with a resourcefulness that overcame the impossible and a confidence that was streaked with fanaticism? Is it these men, the men of the A. E. F., or is it their returned shades, clamoring for less...
...then again, for those who were in the front zone, it is an open secret that "average" is the last term to apply to our First Division, in which Roosevelt fought. There were other good divisions, the 2nd and 3rd and 32nd and 42nd, and others, too; there were also a few pretty poor ones, whose achievements under demobilized conditions are a good deal more conspicuous than they were at the front. But the army knows well enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...
...Make Roosevelt's Spirit Live...
...letter from Colonel Roosevelt, which I received three weeks after his death, on my way back, across the Mediterranean, from Jerusalem I came upon these lines...