Word: dream
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thirty years intrigue in the Balkans. The events of March, 1918, are surely the same. Pan-Germanism, for three years at a stand-still, once more takes up its march Eastward. The great Central Empire, extending from the North Sea to Constantinople and far into Asia Minor, the German dream realized stares the world in the face...
...long ago that we Americans felt it would be difficult for South America and the United States ever to come into close harmony. National and temperamental differences seemed so strong that a unity of purpose on the Western Hemisphere was looked upon as a distant dream. Such differences, however, melt away when a question of duty to do the right clearly presents itself. As a poet has said, border, breed or birth are small matters in such a contingency. It is a glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting...
...clock. At that time Professor Davison, at the organ, assisted by Miss Elsa Alves, soprano, will render the following program: Chorale in A minor, Franck Prayer, Ropartz Professor Davison. "Come, Sweet Death," Bach Alleluja, Mozart Elsa Alves. Canon, Schumann Bourree, Handel Andante (Sixth Symphony), Widor Professor Davison. "For a Dream's Sake," A. W. Kramer Hindoo Slumber Song, Harriet Ware Japanese Death Song, Earl Cranston Sharp Pierott, Dagmar de Rubner Elsa Alves. Pastorale, Dubois Grand Choeur, Guilmant Professor Davison...
...sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro...
...awakened us from our dream. The fascination of German efficiency and German philosophy no longer enthralls us. The peril that we in time, with other nations, might have been wholly "kulturized" is averted. This is one great service that the war has done the world. The Australian soldier realized it, and so felt justified as he fought his last hard battle to the end. --Chicago Evening Post