Word: avoids
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Most attractive, on the whole, among the sonnets I find Mr. Cowley's except "From the Diary of a Restoration Gentleman," which successfully imprisons within fixed form the loose and rambling idiom of Samuel Pepys. Some change of the second line which would avoid the double use in the rhyme position of the word "approach" would leave a sonnet of memorable power, beauty, and satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet...
...spirit which is exemplified in the Harvard Union for American Neutrality and in the speeches of Mr. Bryan is the same which extenuates robbery in order to avoid any unfortunate danger to the persons of the municipal police force. It is the same spirit which came very close to crushing England at the beginning...
...cannot believe that Harvard men would not flock to the standard the moment any definite action was taken. We cannot believe that Mr. Cecil H. Smith and his disciples are ardent pro-Germans. But for the good of the University, the country and the world, let us try to avoid such a hindering spirit, and to put in its place an honest desire to help the country up on its feet, eventually to enforce a lasting peace. PAUL W. INGRAHAM...
...controversy with Germany. We have stated our position in-numerable times, and, after two years in deliberation and judicious action have borne no fruit, are we hasty and hot-headed when we declare that we shall talk no more? We have done our deliberating; we have studiously tried to avoid war; and yet, after all that has passed we are told that we are in a danger of being injudicious and hasty! Nor is there a general misunderstanding, as the platform declares. The issues are very plain. They have been carefully and repeatedly presented...
...Because on May 8, 1916, the President 'to avoid any possible misunderstanding,' had solemnly declared, with the approval of the American people, that the Government of the United States could not 'for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other government affecting the rights of neutrals and non-combatants...