Word: kinship
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...nothing in common with the British but their language. The Germans, Italians, Jews and Slavic peoples who have been immigrating in steady streams, have no national cordiality for England; and these transplanted colonies have failed to accept the prevailing traditions and friendships,--which are essentially British. Anglo-American kinship, once close, has become more and more remote...
...think that Negro music can figure considerably in the development of an American national school of music. Says The Star: "At any rate, Powell does not believe they (Negro spirituals) can justly be made the basis of a national American school -because, he declares, there is not the least kinship between the Negro and the descendants of the first English settlers, who still are presumed to boil highest in our melting pot. Mr. Powell favors using the ' Lonesome Tunes' of the Tennessee and Carolina mountains for the basis, if such there is to be. The strange melodies...
Speaking of the history in Homer's works, he said, "We see the germs of many modern institutions, government, home life, and kinship between God and man in his poetry. All nature is alive and free: splendor and squalor, kindness and savage disposition are found side by side...
...courage, the willingness of the soldiers of the Marne to die for the sake of Liberty, makes an instant response in our hearts because it is the common heritage of France and America. . . . This Marne Memorial will represent our kinship of democracy with France and the bond of sympathy between America and her sister republic."--Dr. John H. Finley...
...Lectures on "Ethnology and the Classics." III. "The Classics and Barbaric Society: An Instance of Animal Kinship. On Sardonic Laughter." Mr. Oric Bates, Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum...