Word: air
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Before this reaches you I shall be at the front. I regret that it will not be with my own. They are wonderful, and Europe is breathing a new air because of them. They have the vision--and the dreams of old men are coming true. I wish I could tell you the great pride and faith and elation the recognition of their spirit gives us. To be an American is today the proudest thing in the world. But even when one is not fighting as one of them--even though he wears another color, he is fighting with...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra last night before a large audience gave its first program in Cambridge under its new conductor, Henri Rabaud at Sanders Theatre. This was the first appearance in America of M. Rabaud. The program follows: 1. Beethoven, Symphony Eroica 2. Handel, Air--Ombra mal fu 3. Cesar Franck, Symphonic Poem Les Eolides (Saint-Saens) 4. Aria, My Heart at Thy Dear Voice 5. Weber, Overture to Euryanthe Soloist, Merle Alcock...
...back to my company. They were camped on the reverse slope of a hill near the Vesle, in a regular inferno of noise, for there were batteries and batteries of guns on all sides as well as above and below, which kept the skies illuminated at night and the air crashing at all times...
...regiment during the Germans' July offensive--but they're more quiet now than then, I assure you. Save for our presence and that of a few civilians who have come back to take up the sorry task of rebuilding and rehabilitating--yes, and save for an occasional air raid--we might as well be in some old stone quarry, camping by piles of scrap rock...
From the dark, the colonel's voice rang out, "Let's have a light! We can have an air raid every evening, but we can't often hear Mr. Sothern. If he doesn't mind, we should like to have...