Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remedy for the situation is not in brute force. Harsh and repressive measures will merely drive more and more voters into the new party. The remedy lies in justice and fair dealing on both sides. At the present time capital holds the upper hand. It should be the business of capital to meet labor and adjust their differences equally. Though there never was a time when production meant so much to the world, capital and labor bicker and brawl. This cannot go on. The new party shows that the crisis is at hand. It can be averted...
...audience, however, will be certain to hear the best-equipped authority in this country. Even more than his knowledge do we respect the dignity, loyalty and fair-mindedness of the former executive during the past seven year. In that period of bitter feeling and harsh criticism, he was unmoved by party or personal animosity and has been influenced only by his wide knowledge and upright character. With the aid of these faculties, he will explain to us the great problem...
Editorially the Illustrated true to the general spirit of wartime unrest presents the unexpected and wanders into that ever dangerous political field. "Them is harsh words", editor; as "Tommy" says, as the Boche bomb lies at a distance unexploded "there might be something in it', but wouldn't it be a little more like "the thing" to figure that "c'est la guerre." Since the war started Lloyd George has shipped all London's red tape to "blighty" or as that Guy Empey might say, "west"; south would be more to the correct atmospheric direction. One half of the classes...
France has summoned her boys for the defense of their native land against the impending national disaster. They have responded with the valor of men. Germany has summoned boys not so young, but still too young for the harsh work of war, that her divisions might be kept at full strength...
...however, there are in this nation a number, small but hardy, of men who by unpolitic fate have been born to a land with which they have no sympathy, we should not with harsh restriction prevent them from seeking the lands of their hearts desire. A hundred million people may not bind their hands in weakness that a hundred men should live free from the perils of valiant service. But the hundred...