Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There is a saying among militiamen that it is harder to get men out of the game than it is to get them in. It is difficult to get them in, however, chiefly I believe, through misunderstanding of what the militia is and what is required of a man upon joining...
...Most young men have little knowledge of military matters and seems to have an idea that joining the militia is like going to jail for a period of three years--that it is impossible to get out before the end of the term. This is absolutely untrue. A man may be discharged at any time for business reasons or upon removal of his place of abode. The two chief requisites are attendance at camp for a period of eight days in summer (where, by the way, one will get more real work than at Plattsburg) and attendance at drills once...
...poetry in the theatre, everything else must be subservient to it. The real new birth of the English theatre is coming in the true poetic drama. This is the belief," Mr. Barker said, "which induced me to take up this new staging movement. If we can get the principle of staging Shakespeare right, then we have the principal of staging all poetry...
...that so many of you are at heart interested in the drama, and that the opportunity is given to so many of you to study it under Professor Baker. But as things stand at the present time, with the financial side of the theatre so prominent you won't get a good theatre. There will not be an American Shakespeare until we get a theatre he would be willing to work in and he would never work in the American theatre as it is now. Let us get the theatre as firm and decent a thing...
...position, left guard, that would do credit to a veteran. In spite of his weight of over 200 pounds he has the activity to shoot through when an occasional opportunity permits and reach the backfield man with the ball before the latter's interference has had time to get under way. . . . He makes himself a very efficient member of his team, no matter where the play may occur...