Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...talk a great deal about our prosperity. The well-to-do have become wealthy; the wealthy have become opulent, yet "the poor are always with us." Moreover, their poverty is no whit lessened by the prosperity of those who have so much. What satisfaction may they draw from this season, if its sole meaning is one of abundance...
...number, and the good things show a really surprising command of language. Yet there is nothing very notable in the collection, one receives the same impression that one so often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram...
...have prompted so many Harvard men to devote themselves to the service of the American Ambulance in France. This is good evidence of the impression which the work of the Ambulance Service has made upon the Allied nations of Europe at a time when there is unfortunately a great deal of foreign criticism is respect to Americans. With the hope of arousing still greater interest in the cause of the Service a booth at the Allied Bazaar has been fitted up with interesting souvenirs of the war, and placed in charge of a group of Harvard men who have already...
There is in his violent excess a forcing of gesture and expression and in his voice a great deal of medieval exaggeration and burlesque. It is not fine art and to the intellectual it may grow the some, yet for the good of the world must never cease to make laugh...
What about the folks at home? Well, they were illustrating the devotion which some American families have been showing in the last two years to the cause of France--to the cause of civilization. They had built the fire for Richard; but they did a good deal more. The mother became a volunteer nurse in the hospital at Neuilly. Before she came she had written a letter to Abbe Klein, the chaplain of the hospital at Neuilly, in which she said: "As I write, the clock strikes two, perhaps the very hour when life forsook our child. I am often...