Word: manhoods
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...last week, as casualty lists began to lengthen in newspapers from Framingham to Bellingham. one cold truth settled over the country. The nation was now spending, at a rapidly rising rate, something which no nation is young enough or big enough or rich enough to spend lavishly: its young manhood...
...church which is "only a polite club of nice people with a faint flavor of well-washed piety" can offer convincing proof, concludes Dr. Bell. "The veteran does not need readjustment soothing syrup, coddling, flattery; he needs to be told . . . that if he has any real manhood in him he will regard America as something more than a glorified factory, movie house, ball park and corner drugstore. He needs churches which make it clear that they care about him . . . that the things that really matter ... lie beyond his untrained cognizance . . . that things seen are temporal, relative, secondary; that...
...odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story's end, the journalist has recovered his soul, his hope, his manhood...
...They can.) But the nicest concurrence of the two Heards comes in the subtle, uncanny Rousing of Mr. Bradegar, the story of a simple dream. The dreamer may be 1 ) a man lying in bed and recalling his boyhood, 2) a boy lying in his crib and envisioning his manhood, 3) a corpse in its shroud looking back on its earthly days as man and boy, or 4) some "timeless" mixture of all three at once. Mystical Gerald Heard would probably plump...
...Army was begging for them. Big newspaper advertisements challenged Canada's manhood: "You will never join the Victory Parade in Berlin by sitting in an easy chair." The Army's Recruiting Director, Brigadier James Mess, broadcast to Canadians still at home and fit for battle: "You . . . cannot hide behind a petticoat, whether it be your wife's or your mother...