Word: home
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...certain Boston paper reaches the height of tactlessness, to use a considerate word, in publishing large headlines to the effect that a member of the Reichstag has declared Germany cannot win against the United States. To print this so prominently amounts to saying, "Stay at home, boys; keep your money in your pockets. The Kaiser is afraid of us and wants to quit." Privileges of the press may permit this, but a reasonable sense of patriotism does not. Such a sacrifice of common sense for sensationalism, by creating an unfounded feeling of security and contempt, endangers loan campaigns, recruiting agencies...
...life of case. With his name and address in black and white his resources will be wheedled from him by the smooth-tongued upperclassman. Under the present Reign of Terror where the cost of living is impossible and Follies' seats cost three dollars the Freshman must keep from his home unless he wishes to go into receivers' hands. A pup-tent on Soldiers' Field seems the only solution; there at least, the youth from 1921 can rest in peace...
...this point the speaker brought his words home by declaring that unless those who stay here hold themselves just as true on a fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead...
...unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs, but we know better. We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series is a good thing...
...this policy, but the blood of their murdered non-combatants calls for action, not the action of mere vengeance, as would men of other races and other character, but action for protection. If the Germans have been carrying on their raids with the settled aim of keeping aeroplanes at home for purposes of defense, then reprisals will equalize the military advantage, and maybe even outweigh it, as the Allies now have more machines than their foes. If, on the other hand, the Germans' air raids are a mere exhibition of frightfulness, if they are simple gratifications to some disappointed group...