Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 37National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution., 1910 - Genealogy |
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... chairman in all the Board's actions . I am not asking you to approve the minutes , nor to pass upon them , that will be done at the next meeting of the Board --but only to carry them away , and fix them clearly in your mind as well as ...
... chairman in all the Board's actions . I am not asking you to approve the minutes , nor to pass upon them , that will be done at the next meeting of the Board --but only to carry them away , and fix them clearly in your mind as well as ...
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... chairman . The Old South Chapter is nothing if not brave and shows the spirit of the ancestors still lingers in the descendants - when it tempts fate and celebrates its thirteenth anniversary on the 13th day of December and nothing ...
... chairman . The Old South Chapter is nothing if not brave and shows the spirit of the ancestors still lingers in the descendants - when it tempts fate and celebrates its thirteenth anniversary on the 13th day of December and nothing ...
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... chairman , who has served us faithfully and well . More harmonious meetings would be hard to find , not that we have always agreed , but our regent has a happy faculty of being able to smooth things down . She has been ever ready to ...
... chairman , who has served us faithfully and well . More harmonious meetings would be hard to find , not that we have always agreed , but our regent has a happy faculty of being able to smooth things down . She has been ever ready to ...
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given at the Hotel Astor , Mrs. Agnes Sumner Geer acting as chairman assisted by Mrs. Stanley L. Otis , and was greatly enjoyed . The guests of honor were Mrs. J. Heron Crosman , president of the Society of Patriotic Women ; Mrs. Horace ...
given at the Hotel Astor , Mrs. Agnes Sumner Geer acting as chairman assisted by Mrs. Stanley L. Otis , and was greatly enjoyed . The guests of honor were Mrs. J. Heron Crosman , president of the Society of Patriotic Women ; Mrs. Horace ...
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... chairman was much congratulated on the success of her undertaking . In April , Rebecca Motte entertained the State Federation of Women's Clubs in session in Charleston , with a charming reception , Mrs. Buist Davidson as chairman ...
... chairman was much congratulated on the success of her undertaking . In April , Rebecca Motte entertained the State Federation of Women's Clubs in session in Charleston , with a charming reception , Mrs. Buist Davidson as chairman ...
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Page 189 - DEAR MADAM: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Page 165 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Page 298 - They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins; — Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins.
Page 106 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 453 - to promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge," thus developing an enlightened public opinion and affording to young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of American citizens...
Page 110 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Page 305 - And the nuns' sweet hymn was heard the while, Sung low in the dim, mysterious aisle. "Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's...
Page 106 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 90 - I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republic for which it stands ; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Page 215 - Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever ! THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.