Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what is Mr. Hughes' reaction toward this new situation? In all of his speeches I find not one single original idea on this subject, not one single illuminating contribution to this most vital topic of the world's thought. What we had a right to hope for was a leader who could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner...
...Bill Mr. Palue excuses "legislation before inves- tigation," only on the ground that investigation can not tell us as much as experience can. Now if we cannot anticipate experience with accurate investigation of present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations that always acted precipitately...
Finally, Mr. Paine's idea that we could not have insisted on our rights at the time the Lusitania was sunk without causing war, because Germany was ready to defy us, is immediately refuted by his following statement that Germany has later respected them. It is unfortunate that this time the Democrats cannot "both eat their cake and have it too." If Germany had been so ready to defy us, she wouldn't have yielded up her profitable submarine campaign. Her final yielding, however, which was due more to respect for the power of the aroused American people than...
...have to teach us. We are native Americans, mostly of New England ancestry, easily adjusted to the conditions about us; surely we can with justice plead for recognition as qualified to take part in the civic life of this our city. And we might have picked up an occasional idea about street lighting, sidewalks, paving, city managers, budgets, etc., in some Missouri town, which could be of service here. Not as inhabitants and qualified voters of Arizona and Florida would we take part in politics in Cambridge, but as workers in one of the great industries of Cambridge. EMMET RUSSELL...
...humor and insight of the trained observer, which we find in "The First Hundred Thousand." It is however, a thoroughly good piece of work for a novice at journalism. Primarily a personal narrative it succeeds in giving a picture of the methods of fighting "Johnny Turk," and a general idea of that most splendid of failures, the Gallipoli campaign. The framework of the story is the brilliant career of the First Newfoundland Regiment, from which the author was parted only by a wound, leading to his honorable dismissal from the service. Anecdotes of other regiments and of brave comrades, tales...