Word: perils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...battle, and the pacific have prayed for peace. Each time our government has avoided the conflict with what measure of honor only the future can tell. And now we are face to face with another situation, more serious than the others it would seem. But, in reality this newest peril presages no more than the previous crises our entrance into the holocaust of the nations...
...suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind...
...secure the economic and transportation facilities that are involved, her hand will be stronger than at any moment for a diplomatic move. With either Russia or Japan she may come to terms, and if with the latter then we should be face to face with our own hour of peril...
...plume and accompanied by a letter containing the author's real name. The competition closes on November 1, the decision, resting with five persons of national prominence, to be announced on Thanksgiving Day. The article will be judged by its value in awakening popular appreciation of our national peril and necessities as well as its literary merit...
...became absorbed wholly in the story. It is a tale of the Civil War, but that threadbare theme appears for once in a new and surprising form. The principal character a woman too dull to apprehend the great meanings of the conflict, too apathetic to be moved by the peril of thirty thousand men, is by an insult which would seem comparatively trivial to others, but which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury of righteousness, and, without knowing it, becomes a national heroine. This may be melodrama in its superficial appearance, but at bottom it is something...