Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Danube to the Aegean and the Adriatic to the Bosphorus," on Wednesday, December...
...Lusitania" is an appropriate dirge, too quiet for the subject, but dingified and earnest. There are three smoothly adequate descriptive lyrics: Mr. H. Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody," a fresh impression of love in Aegean landscapes; and Mr. E. Whittlesey's "Along the Wall," vague but rather pretty. Mr. R. G. Hillyer's "The Voice to Respond" begins with a large idea, which becomes smaller as it becomes too subjective. His lines have a strikingly Swinburnian swing. Mr. R. Littell's "Poet Telegraphs" is so vague...
...impose her "Kultur" upon the rest of the world, including the United States. I have found educated Germans speaking with the greatest levity of making war, and I was told by a German official, upon one occasion, that Germany had determined to go down through the Balkans to the Aegean, and when I ventured to point out that there were obstacles in the way he replied "What other nations want makes no difference, but what we want we take." Such sentiments, expressed by persons in authority, have not been calculated to instill in my mind the same confidence...