Word: kins
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then came this present conflict, and with it casualty lists containing names with less historical interest for us. Our friends and our kin have spilled their blood in France. Our pain and anguish is now personal; it is our very own. The lists have been growing and growing until the number of Harvard men who have given their lives has swelled to eighty. And thus we find that Memorial Day has a meaning for us after all, that its purpose is a splendid one, that we welcome this occasion to hold corporate honor for all our brave defenders, but especially...
...boastfulness but only of reminder it may be said that the Anglo-Saxon and his near kin have more than a bit of the "Hang on!" spirit which turns defeat into victory. The defence of Lucknow, the fight of the Bon Homme Richard, the squares at Waterloo, the Alamo, the peach orchard at Gettysburg, are examples of a spirit in which the American soldier has a share by inheritance direct, or by acquired collateral interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will...
...would avail herself of them as well as we. If they desire to upheave the world, and to mould it afresh in the image of their own desires they had far better begin in the land which was unfortunate enough to bring them forth, and among peoples of whose kin they are. If they desire absolute liberty of action, they had far better go to some uninhabited and desolate isle. For only when there are no other men within the bounds of intercourse may a man enjoy absolute liberty...
First, what is private honor? Its meanings are legion. But its aggressive phase is the feeling that deliberate injuries to one's pride or person or kin make requital dearer than life itself. This is so part of us that we instinctively scorn anyone who questions it. Yet is it a reliable guide, after all? History's variegated standards of honor prove no. Honor constrained the medieval knight to make quixotic fighting tours to glorify a lady whom he never saw. Honor dictated family feuds like that of the Montagues and Capulets. Honor involved private war after every injury. Today...
...preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...