Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that has gone. The uniform cap has replaced the gallant and beribboned straw. No more on candid headwear in the Yard is seen the vertical black and red stripes of the crew-man's ribbon. No more the horizontal stripes of the hockey man. Where are the straws of yesteryear? Where is the glory that once was hatbands? Where are our ancient symbols...
...dust has been brushed from the corners in the Union, and spread evenly over the floor. Now the face of the bust of Caesar or Michael Angelo has been washed to a candid white, and on the book-racks copies of the Black Cat and the Advocate have been hidden from sight. Now the awning is out and the carpet is down...
...nearly all the cablegrams coming to us from any part of the world are subjected to British censorship, and the wireless messages from Berlin are subjected to German censorship. Fifth, the various belligerents differ widely in the authenticity of their reports, but none of them is as prompt and candid in admitting its defeats as it is in announcing its victories. Sixth, sending out false rumors of intentions and even false news of its events is the custom of warfare...
...powerful without violating truth to life, for even a being mentally so starved as its chief character would express himself more fully upon the defeat of all his hopes. On the whole, however, the piece is skillful and affecting. Its theme is a timely one, and recalls the candid words in which Mrs. Andrew W. White last year condemned "the neglect of the great body of women to study or practice economy, or to teach it to their daughters." The follies and crimes of men having of late been amply exposed, it now appears to be the turn of their...