Word: black
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Irish have borne the brunt of much misrule and the question of Ireland is, no doubt, a black page in English history. For the present, nevertheless, the Irish have failed to appreciate their obligations and have conducted themselves in a manner out of harmony with the safety of the empire. In mixing home rule and conscription, England has blundered both as regards justice and expediency. Irish conscription we must have; and home rule we may have, but the two bear no direct relation to each other...
...staff officers and company commanders will wear leather puttees. Lieutenants will wear roll puttees. Noncoms and privates will wear regulation canvas puttees. Officers will wear the regulation army officer's hat cord (gold and black...
...Reverend Hugh Black, D.D., Litt.D., Professor of Practical Religion at the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock. The service closes promptly at 9 A. M. in order to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...
...with the American public at home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have captured a German patrol of twenty, while on page five, under a flaring advertisement of some chewing gum company, we find the official British and French communications of attacks in which thousands have been engaged. In a way it is ludicrous, but such a sad commentary...
...Reverend Hugh Black, D.D., Litt.D., Professor of Practical Religion at the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning and tomorrow morning at 2.45 o'clock. The service closes promptly at 9 A. M. in order to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...