Word: borings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...differences and inconsistencies in the arguments of various Republicans can be made an issue (without deliberate levity) by any one who supports President Wilson is hard to see. Mr. Hughes may indeed have widely different supporters, but "straight Americanism" will be enough for them all, although it may bore the Democrats as a "platitude". By insisting on the respecting of our rights by Germany, through a genuine threat of force, Mr. Hughes will satisfy the Roosevelt sentiment; in gaining a fair treatment from England of our mails and cargoes he will satisfy his German American supporters...
...Prince '75, of Boston. The ceremony took place in the Elysee when Dr. Prince, as special envoy of the 500 American signers, emphasized in his presentation speech the desire of the Americans doing active work in France to express collectively their sympathy for the French nation. The memorial, which bore the title "America to France" in gold letters, contained the autograph signatures of the American sitizens represented and a message of sympathy to the people of the Allied nations. The volume will shortly be placed in the National Museum...
Whatever the majority of those who frequent Memorial find in the conversation, the intellectually ambitious find it an extreme bore...
...soon as we left St. Nicholas evidences that we were in close proximity to the battle-line crowded in on us thick and fast. We passed several detachments of mud-stained infantry who bore unmistakable signs of having passed the previous night in the trenches. The fields on either side of the road were pitted with shell holes; many of the farmhouses were charred and roofless; and the plain wooden crosses which marked the graves of fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early...
...symbols have been placed in positions corresponding to those at the opposite end of the bridge. The right hand column, as one faces the Stadium, has a tablet on which these words have been inscribed: "On either side of the river there was a tree of life, which bore twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."--Rev. XXII, 2. Above this is the symbol of the soldier...