Word: brisbanian
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...Brisbanian were the sharply noted details, but not the long words and generally gloomy tone. That does not worry Seward Brisbane. Says he: "Pop killed himself doing work with which I was wholly unsympathetic. . . . We had lots of fights. . . . If it hadn't been for grandfather's intellect, Pop might have been a buccaneer...
Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned; Harvard plays football while civilization totters. Is it, after all, too Brisbanian an analogy? There were a thousand men at the football mass meeting last Thursday and yet no one expects that a fraction of that number will attend the discussion of the war tonight. Nevertheless, it should be a good meeting. Partisan animosities are now well under control and most people are aware of their own ignorance or lack of insight into the fundamentals of the conflict that finds half the civilized world in arms. Under such circumstances, there is everything...
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