Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serving with the American Ambulance Field Service. Bliss sailed form New York on January 28 with a detachment of ambulanciers, and word came that he had arrived safely in Paris. A cable received a week before his death informed his parents that he had contracted a cold, but no alarm was felt over his condition...
...Corps. Now that the University authorities have made it possible for further enrolment many men who at first found it impossible to join the unit on account of laboratory classes ought to reconsider the question. Although the new drill hour will entail greater effort and the purchase of sundry alarm clocks, the chance of receiving an adequate training for an officers' commission is well worth the sacrifice. Since the training unit at Harvard is limited by the rules of the War Department to twelve companies totalling 960 men, a Machine-Gun Company and a Headquarters Company, this new company will...
...keep in mind the previous policies of the President, this portion of the platform seems rather useless. The most rabid Republican would never accuse him of being hasty or injudicious in making war on foreign nations. And again we are informed that "there is general misunderstanding and unnecessary alarm." This assertion is ridiculcus. At no time have the press and public been calmer in the face of war, or given greater evidence of self-control. This body of patriots does not desire a war "from which we have nothing to gain." This lamentable fact is undoubtedly true. We would...
...danger of the spirit represented by this new by-word is a cause for nothing less than national alarm. It is easy enough to follow the band down the street and entrain for the front when the flags are out and the only girl in the world has kissed you goodby. It is easy enough, but it is frightfully ineffective...
...those who set fires alight are firebugs, then those who run must be fireflies. They are the perennial searchers for amusement. It is to be hoped that they never follow a false alarm, never miss a flaming catastrophe, and never get their wings scorched by the sparks from the engine or the fire. Nero, bring out your fiddle...