Word: mad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Memphis' sin alone. It was not Tennessee's sin alone. It was the sin of this nation, which allows such things to come to pass. It was the sin of our lawlessness, of our mad disregard of all that makes existence bearable...
...United States demonstrates to Germany that her submarine warfare is a failure the war will only last a few months longer, as this is Germany's last hope, and only the submarines can win the war for her. If Germany can be shown this she is not so mad as to desire her own ruin, and the energy the United States puts into her preparation will decide this question. Even now I believe the submarine campaign to be a failure, and America can make it even more...
...before, as dependent colonies, as a small republic, as a great Power, it has raised the standard of battle. Each time it was goaded to humiliation before it was willing to enter on the final and most awful test of national greatness. We have never rushed blindly nor conquest-mad to war. We do not rush blindly now. We have endured beyond the point of all endurance, because the sense of justice and forebearance is so keen in us as a people that we hesitate lest one right thinking man might say we have been over-hasty. We may endure...
...strictly observed, is by no means the spy or marplot which these prohibitions might be taken to indicate, He is merely so much the philosopher that he cannot take a national view of the questions involved in the war. Like Woodrow Wilson, he regards the whole world as mad, with one nation as much to blame as another for the general outbreak of insanity. This being, apparently, his view, Mr. Russell can hardly complain of his own treatment by the British Government; he must admit that, being in a madhouse, it is natural that the inmates, who regard themselves...
...lecture was called "The Spirit of Touchstone," and in it, Mr. Noyes declared that "Hamlet was not mad, nor was he pretending to be mad; he was putting on the disposition of the Fool in order to strike at the insincerity and unreality of the world about him. Hamlet derived his disposition from his former friend, Yorrick, the court jester, which friendship is emphasized and illustrated in the play by Hamlet's sad reminiscences in the grave-digger's scene...