Word: bled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This sane and proper view is now confirmed by countries in Europe. Constructionists in general defeated obstructionists and destructionists. The present time is not one for wild and hare-brained schemes of social milleniums. The job of the world is to get back on its feet after being bled white by a war costing millions of lives and hundred of billions of dollars. In the words of Premier Clemenceau, "the salvation of the world lies in work and work alone." The destructionist and obstructionist Red can cool his head and his head in the outer office for a while...
...France is not exhausted nor is she, as so many have said, 'bled white'," declared M. Stephane Lauzanne, editor of the Paris Matin, in his lecture on "France in Arms" last night in the New Lecture Hall. "Since the outbreak of the war, we have raised three great loans amounting to more than three billion dollars in ready money, in addition to a like sum in stocks and bonds. Our last loan was not the least successful. We have now more than a million more men under arms than...
...French Folk-Song, "En Passant par la Lorraine.""La Marseillaise" (with Band accompaniment).(Miss Rogers).Andante Cantabile (Fifth Symphony), TschaikowskyValse des Fleurs (Casse-Noisette Ballet), TschaikowskyScotch Folk-Songs: "Scots who hae wi' Wallace bled." "Wha wadna fecht for Charley?" (Miss Rogers)."Katinka" Selection, FrimlMarche Lorraine, GanneThe Battle Hymn of the Republic (with Band accompaniment).(Miss Rogers...
Prussia and the Allies are not bled white, and the offensive which she has so highly advertised is going to be a tremendous effort which will need all the power that can be mustered in order to hold the line. But after it is over we may feel assured that the War Lord and his staff will still be forced to eat their meals at Potsdam and not Versailles...
...shoe begins to pinch, certain factors should be held in mind. France has been unbelieveably bled, and is probably continuing to fight chiefly because of our entrance into the war. But until next spring aid from the United States is more likely to be potential than effective, and therefore much depends upon our attitude and our actions until that time. If France can rely upon us to put ourselves unreservedly into the conflict at the earliest possible moment she will continue to fight...