Word: lust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...determined band of citizens might possibly feel that there was no alternative to taking upon itself the execution of justice, and proudly abiding the consequences. But does Mr. Rosenblatt really think so badly of Omaha's administration, or see in a herd of men that yelp themselves into blood-lust, and then scuttle like rabbits, her true patriots? We ask leave to doubt...
Young men, you young men of the South, do not attempt from a barren sectional pride to defend a crime so horrible. For such lust of death in a whole city, a whole country-side, there is no shadow of defence, not now, nor in eternity. It is for those men who in time hope to lead the South to arouse such horror in their hearts of this mob blindness that they will do away with it forever; that our whole people, without sectional exception, will honor that law and justice upon which our nation rests...
...preserve reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest. If we fight it will be to maintain our rights as a sovereign nation with honor and dignity; our aim will be to prevent our rights from violation in the future and it will not be merely to punish a present offender, for punishment is a means...
...materialism," of their native land. The younger they are, the more educated they are, the longer they have sojourned abroad, in so much greater measure is their contempt voiced, till it has become almost the mark of culture and broad-mindedness to hold in contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened by his own provincialism...
...country was simply teeming with great plans for the future which would inevitably have been frustrated by war. I am led to send you this declaration by the sudden discovery that some of our noted men still believe that Germany, driven by a militarist party and through lust for conquest deliberately precipitated this struggle. I declare such a view to be absolutely and fundamentally false. ERNEST T. HENDERSON '84, Ph.D., L.H.D...