Word: heavens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Junior Dance has been known since time and the Junior Class began, or thereabouts, as the most festive occasion of the third classman's usual festive season. An invitation to it has been the ultimate heaven of every debutante; and even those proud and few chosen Seniors who are admitted have felt themselves rejuvenated in memory of more youthful and frolicsome days. Even the proletariat thronging the veranda of the Union and peering hopelessly within, has felt itself part of the glories of the Juniors' Valhalla...
...referring to Harvard as "The Rich Man's College," dubbing it in derision an exclusive finishing school for the scions of plutocratic families. A man of ordinary circumstances, they said, had as much chance of achieving distinction at Cambridge as the rich man has of making his way into heaven...
...reminds one somewhat of some modern drama. Here we see the eternal triangle, in this case King Henry, Queen Katharine and Anne Bullen; here we have the noble here, condemned to death by the wily villain, heroically bidding the crowd goodby. Here, too, is the court room scene, but (Heaven be praised!) no one recognizes the prosecuting attorney as a long lost father, or vice- versa. There is a ball room scene, a garden scene--who says that Shakespeare isn't modern? The lights and shadows of King Henry's Court are all displayed before our eyes and through them...
...Allinson's "Life" is a whimsical bit of verse; how much more crisply a similar idea has been treated, he can easily discover by reading Rupert Brooke's "Heaven." "When the Dead Awaken," by Mr. Willcox, is commonplace. Mr. Leffingwell attempts a feat of compression in a "A Song of Resurrection," and leaves his reader in a somewhat confused state of mind. Mr. Sanger collects his impressions of "Iron Ore Mines," and expresses his views about "America's Mission" in something that appears to be akin to free verse. Both his impressions and his views are worth while; but they...
...that they be carried by the Japanese navy to Egypt or Mesopotamia to fight for Britain, France and Russia, whose foreign policy in Morocco and Persia has helped to bring this war, in which Germany was tempted to invade Belgium, and Italy to land in Albania! Where under high heaven is there either "national honor, human justice or universal principles of righteousness" in this perfectly Gilbertian complexity of aims, policies and national alignments...