Word: lukewarm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great an extent our allies are dependent upon us for financial support. News is being sent daily to Europe, to Germany as well as to France and England, of the response which our people make to government movements. We do not want it said that we are lukewarm, but that the loan has been greatly over-subscribed and that the people are already preparing for the next issue...
...number includes three pieces of verse, only one of which contains anything remotely resembling even lukewarm tar. Mr. Rickaby's sonnet about the clash and reconciliation of his Muse and his Love, though smooth enough, is cloyed with pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something...