Word: older
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inadequate and antiquated legislative rulings and to the unbelievable characteristics of a few of our legislators. The events of last Saturday and Sunday in the Senate should serve as a vivid object lesson to young men who are just leaving college. Everyone deplores the actions of our political representatives. Older men who are settled in business or some profession feel that it is impossible for them to make a sudden change and turn to politics. It is for the young men who have such decisions before them to feel a personal responsibility for the errors and absurdities committed...
...Mars keep his exclusiveness. Let him keep his frozen colds. Let him keep his red grass and his last icy immersion. Even though he does belong to a family older than ours by some million years, even if he is a more remote neighbor of the garish sun, even if he is a gentleman, yet we can get along without replies to our wireless greetings, nor smiles to our heliographed winks. We can get along without Mars. Mars is so cold he would freeze alcohol...
...higher patriotism must bear always in mind that if in the future means can be devised to maintain our rights by reason rather than by might, by civilized methods than by barbaric, in a man's way than in a child's, then the older methods must be substituted by the new. G. R. WALKER...
...South does not want war. The West does not want war. And even in New England, saturated as it is with British influence, I have not yet been jostled by a young American rushing to the colors to defend other people's interests. If only our older compatriots, weak of loins but mighty of mouth and pen, could be induced to go to the front and put their noble words into action, I think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags...
...either case it is not sonorous enough to be self-justifying. Like most undergraduate writers of sonnets, and many older writers, Mr. Allinson is still more or less at the mercy of his form, as the words "all the world is fay" too plainly reveal: unsatisfactory workmanship clogs much of whatever poetic thought the sonnet contains. Mr. Code's sonnet is specific and lively; but it contains a nine-syllabled verse, and an Alexandrine. The latter can scarcely be intentional, since it is not the final verse. The sonnet form is so exacting that it is seriously damaged by stray...