Word: blood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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France has given her truest blood in this, her terrible war. The gift has been made freely and without question of the sacrifice. There has been no miserly doling out of life where the life of the nation, which dominates and includes the life of all individuals, was threatened. In brave fortitude the republic does not look to the past, nor count the tale of its dead...
...rate of interest, the munitions to be manufactured at a fair profit. For a month now we have been at war, and our nation has come to realize that some bravery is to be demanded of it, some sacrifice, some fortitude of spirit. Not by iron alone, but by blood and iron, will we win victory. That blood must be of our best...
Harvard will indeed be glad to welcome men who have already shed their blood for our common cause, and their coming is one of the first significant steps taken in bringing about the co-operation so essential in this great universal war against autocracy...
...pride of Germany must be bitter and frustrate when she knows that against her are allied all the great freedom-loving and self-governing Powers of the earth. Will she find her own defeat worth all the blood and iron it cost her, all her wrecked fortune, her ruined strength...
...glasses, and took out my purse with the intention of buying an evening paper. Thereupon a sturdy fellow who was standing near twirling up his mustache struck me, first over the head with his stick, then in the face with his fist, smashing my glasses and causing the blood to flow freely from my nose. He then took possession of my purse and thrust it in his pocket, calling loudly for the police. An officer of the law happened to be near at hand. He drew near and addressed us in polished tones, somewhat as follows...