The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. ... However, the question of the main character, "him," lingers through the next stanzas, until Cummings strikes with: "sir) it took a nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue el; in the top of his head: to tell him." 2 During the early 1930s, the United States traded steel with Japan, which explains the use of "nipponized," which is a derogatory term for something that is Japanese. Also, the "old sith avenue el" r...

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• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

Then, in quick succession, a number of minor Party men who had supported Kamenev and Zinoviev in the '20s were also arrested, charged with terrorism, and shot. ... The following year, another group of old Bolsheviks were subjected to the same treatment. ...

• Word Count: 5151
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. ... About two million men were sent away over seas in the American Expeditionary Force. ... These men were called the "doughboys". ...

• Word Count: 3869
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School