Word: descent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Carroll's book is bright; the lines are funny and part of the plot, which is unusually and quite logically in evidence through the evening and the lyrics are to be heard and worth hearing. There is no descent to absence of thought in verse to serve as words for the many lilting tunes. The songs are all in character and entertaining, of, for and by themselves...
...these hours of suspense a great, tragic conflict shakes the hearts of millions of American citizens of German birth or descent. For nearly three years our brothers on the other side of the Atlantic have held at bay a world of enemies. The terrible hardships of trench warfare, aided by enemy bullets and shrapnel, thinned their ranks--spread over a front of thousands of miles. England's starvation blockade, which the American Government itself admitted to be "illegal and indefensible," finds its daily victims among the children and the aged behind the fronts. The few letters that reach...
...months were: Tintoretto, "Diana"; Piero Della Francesca, "Crucifixion"; Pesellino, "Building of the Temple"; Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Turner, "Pas de Calais"; Byzantine panel, 13th century, "Scenes from Life of St. Peter"; Rogier van der Weyden, "Noli me tangere"; Lucas Cranach, "Lady in Red Gown"; Filippino Lippi, "Descent from the Cross"; Moretto da Brescia, "The Magdalen"; 16th century Flemish pictures, "Annunciation," and "Crucifixion"; Dutch pictures, Rembrandt, "St. Bartholomew," Franz Hals, "Portrait of a Man Seated," David Teniers, the Younger, "The Five Senses," Girolamo da Santa Croce, "Portrait of a Man"; Nicholas Maes, "Portrait of a Man"; Rubens, "Meleager...
...friend N. W. Edwards.' On the opposite page is a statement showing that it was given by Lincoln to his law-partner, W. H. Herndon, who in turn gave it to Mr. Fields on January 1, 1867, so that it comes to the College library by a direct descent. Into this copy Mr. Fields pasted a long letter from Lincoln, written at Washington on February 15, 1848, discussing the right of the President to act without consulting Congress, in time of war or threatening international complication. The other volume of Pope is a copy of the first edition...
...even the word of honor of the holder of five university and college degrees and author of ten volumes of history will avail little against the leaden mass of ignorance and prejudice that weighs down our country. Permit me to say that I am the completes American both by descent and by bringing up, and that when I first went to Germany in 1884, after a year of the then wretched instruction in German at Harvard, I could speak scarcely a word of the language. I was in Germany from November 7, 1913 to July 28, 1914. I was under...