Word: landed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...author takes us from the recruiting office on our own side of the Atlantic to the training camps of England, and thence to Gallipoli. We see the troops land and watch them fighting in the trenches and in "no-man's land," or trying to rest in their dug-outs. We grow to admire the British Tommy--Scotchman, Irishman, Newfoundlander, Canadian, Anzac or city-bred Londoner; and to respect the heathen Turk, his honest enemy...
...boundary line between farce and comedy is wavering and vague; otherwise Mr. Harcourt's latest play could never be labelled as it is--a comedy, for this bit of drollery lies in that no-man's land between the two,--invading now the territory of comedy, again the realm of farce...
...London Spectator, in an editorial entitled "De Minimus," says: "It is good for every man's character that there should be some spiritual region in which he can do as he likes, some land of little things where he may be delivered from the tyranny of the long arm." This reflection may invite more appreciation in England, where tradition and time-honored custom have established a political and social inertia reasonably impervious to radical pressure, than in America, whose institutions are not similarly encrusted. However, herein lies a possible indication of our own proneness to talk and act nonsensically. College...
...stand self-confessed as willing to surrender to anyone who may threaten us, be they labor leaders within our borders or arrogant governments without, it is absolutely necessary that we turn the Democratic party out of office on November 7, and every college man who desires that his native land shall once more take her place in the march of progress, with only secondary regard for comfort or material gain, but with an eye primarily to the ultimate good of humanity, can accomplish much towards that end by working and voting for the election of Charles E. Hughes...
...President of the United States is honorary head of the American Red Cross and although the organization is incorporated under an act of Congress and authorized by the government to aid our land and naval forces in time of war, it is supported entirely by voluntary contributions. The scope of the work, however, is not confined to hospital and field work in time of battle. The efficient relief corps of the organization are always ready to assist in preventing the suffering incident to sudden catastrophies. Prompt and practical relief has been rendered in more than 80 disasters during the last...