Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vertical City. Last week, peering excitedly through thick, black-rimmed glasses at the models for his new building, he was still blasting away at everybody who didn't see things his way. "Garden cities are just a waste of space. Rows of houses, each one cutting off the view...
* The south portico itself was not added to the White House until 1824, the colonnaded north portico five years later. Other Presidents have made other alterations with & without outcry. Jefferson added wing terraces and long rows of one-story "offices," which also served as "meat house, wine cellar, coal and...
Square-faced Brigadier General Wallace Graham wore his uniform-with four rows of service ribbons and gold-braided aiguillettes-when he appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. He also wore the sheepish smile of a babe in the woods who had been found by the wrong search party...
William Booth became "General" and his new Salvation Army fell into step behind him as uniformed privates, noncoms and officers-with bands, "councils of war," "orders of the day" and "knee-drill" (prayer). The enemy was the Devil, and the Army marched to meet him wherever the going was toughest...
The Dead Remained. "Yet even yesterday, when the last troops had disappeared . . . the great camp . . . had still a lingering civilized appearance. The trees looked as beautiful as ever in the sparkling morning air and chrysanthemums were blooming in the gardens. The church . . . was still undesecrated. The British graveyard, where 120...