Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stuff deals rather conspicuously with war and its multiple aspects, and the nonsense touches on everything else under the sun, excluding the Scandinavian. And the very best thing about the Christmas number is that you'd never know it was one if the cover didn't say so. The cover, once again, is the most striking individual feature of the Lampoon, but that is not at all disparaging of what is under the cover. Even the Arrow collar advertisement on the back page is a little more artistic than usual
...Western Hemisphere was looked upon as a distant dream. Such differences, however, melt away when a question of duty to do the right clearly presents itself. As a poet has said, border, breed or birth are small matters in such a contingency. It is a glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting we are at least coming to know, to understand, and to appreciate our brothers of the South and that they are seeing us in another light than that of rank materialists. No shallow sentiment or diplomatic sophistry prompted this...
...this writing, the details of the disaster are not known, nor is the precise cause of it. We do not know whether or not the hand of an enemy had anything to do with it. But it is evident that the loss is terrific; that thousands must suffer as well as mourn; and that the chief sally-port of the new world's war against the Central Empires of the old world has been virtually destroyed. And whether or not they had any hand in this calamity, how fiercely our enemies will rejoice at the sorrow and destruction that have...
...Above the overwhelming horror of the war, to me, is that men can be so cruel, that humanity does not respect itself. But we, in this country, do not realize the gravity of the situation. Those who know the most about the war are the least partisan and speak least harshly about their enemies...
...that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always for his own skin, and there is no telling what sort of backfire another year of war might start at home. The governing classes in Germany know that dickering with the Bolshevlki is playing with fire so far as their own bureaucratic interests are concerned. --Boston Herald...