Word: american
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That America will compete in the Olympic games to be held at Antwerp, Belgium, in August, 1920, was decided at a recent dinner held at the New York Athletic Club when the American Olympic Committee conferred with Colonel Osterreith, Belgian Director-General of Sports...
...committee for the American team has not yet decided as to how many men will represent this country, but there is certain to be a larger United States team than ever before in the history of the games. With regard to the selection of the men, it is understood that a policy similar to that of former years will be followed...
...American Legion is not making itself popular by the stand several of its posts have taken against the appearance of Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist. In constituting itself a dictator of artistic productions it allies itself against the very principles for which it fought. By its virtual prohibition of Mr. Kreisler's playing it takes an attitude that is Prussian in essence, and diametrically contrary to real Americanism. There is nothing un-American or unpatriotic in listening to great music. Art transcends international boundaries -- a thing is beautiful whether it is American, or German, or Czecho-Slovakian, in its origin...
...after all, the Jenkins affair is only one of a long series of intolerable situations. The Mexican government has proved conclusively that it does not want or has not the power to keep order. Discounting the "shady" activities of American capitalists, discounting the exaggerated rumors of border outrages, the people of the United States have strong grounds for exasperation. Mexico is a thorn a their side seemingly impossible to extract...
...could never support any plan that endangered the freedom of the individual. "We have seen the effect of the Prussian system of compulsion in the universities," he went on, "and we must be careful that we do not lose that freedom which has always characterized British and American university life...