Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evidently does not realize,--the fact that our country is pitifully unprepared to face an actual crisis of any sort, demanding a display of armed force. It is not, unfortunately, a question of mere physical bravery, or even of patriotism in actual warfare, but a question of officers who know their business, of efficient guns, of ammunition to meet the demand, and of an army of efficiently trained soldiers. Without these necessary requisites of a successful military machine, the best of our young men would have to be sacrificed in the early stages of a conflict, in order to teach...
...vocation faces so much opposition from advisors as a purely personal work, for it embodies all the hazards of failure. Teaching is this pastoral personal opportunity. Do you know a man who is eating his heart out in an uncongenial trade into which custom has forced him? Might he not be teaching? The sooner the better, let the possible misfit and his friends investigate the work of the boarding schools...
...veneer. At the close--beautiful as one finds little Rosalie's roguish kiss--it seems better that the boy should have worshipped from afar unappreciated, as must be so often the case with his like. The success of "Rosalie" once more enforces the lesson to portray the life you know: even "Malbrouck," fancifully conceived and tastefully executed, lacks reality beside it. The author of "Malbrouck" to conclude might do well to excise adjectives especially when, as too often, they run in pairs
...also reminded that they must let Notman know which proof they want, before Monday...
Professor C.T. Copeland says of him. "I know of no living writer in English or French who has a greater gift of description than John Reed...