Word: loving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...going to be platoon leaders, and it is up to you now to learn every detail of your future job so that your command will first respect you for your knowledge and ability: and then love you for your care of them...
...result has so far been highly satisfactory. The quality of the teams may be lower than the general average of those in the past, but the same Harvard spirit is there. The competitive spirit, however, has changed. The two universities competed Saturday in what seemed a pure love for sport. There was none or the glamor of a great intercollegiate contest on Soldiers Field or Lake Carnegie. Our thoughts seem to have turned to more serious matters, but still we applaud such success as our teams have met and the spirit in which they played...
...Colby contributes a tragedy of love and blood, called "Charlie." The hero is a brutish boxer led to ruin by "a all slim dark-haired figure of a girl" whom he murders in a terrific final melee. The story is so formidable that few would penetrate it. The style is excessive in adjectives, adverbs, "color." and bold bad phrasing--at times a debauchery of words. Yet the author gives hints of power...
...Love of blood does not prompt such feelings. It is not a question of wreaking stern vengeance on an exasperating foe. But love of country, love of freedom from Teutonism, and love of the right dictates these sentiments. They are not felt by the cold-hearted and stoical alone; the timid share them too. They are the convictions of the thinking part of a nation in a horrible...
There is a trifling sub-plot of love running through the piece, beginning with the eternal triangle and ending with mutual forgiveness by husband and wife; but it is obvious that the love interest was created only to hitch the acts together. In no other way might the scene painter introduce his sets for a Manhattan drawing room, a first-line trench and a battered village of France. Besides, the plot matters little...