Word: perishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were turned back, not advanced by the War. . . . The streams of conscience and liberty can be dammed, not dried. They may shrink to rivulets. They will again be rivers . . . only if they will see the truth that there is no enemy to mankind like the sword. . . . By it will perish all liberty, all progress, humanity itself, if it be not forever sheathed...
...exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house plant which, luxuriating in the warmth and humus of countries long inhabited, would perish in the rigers of a "wilderness." His name is Ezra Pound.* When first he appeared in London, a most erratic youth much given to "raw silk of good color," violent tennis and fencing, more violent language and gestures, and to two strong veins of poetry, lyric and satirical...
...dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge for his people by wrecking them since he would perish first. Arrived at Jassy they spat upon him and dispersed to their homes...
...Lobarno perish and the League of Nations fall; but the Big Three must and shall be preserved. There will be conversations and negotiations about this high matter. If necessary, all Harvard graduates and undergraduates--barring the Lampoon squad--will sign a humble policy and remonstrance. Let us have peace and the game. And a pleasing little incident of Saturday's game with Cambridge was the capture of the Harvard goal posts by the conquerors. This is a common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused...
...Representing an investment of $3.10 for each of the 800,000 members of the brotherhood, the memorial is a structure "embodying beauty and permanence, one of the finest memorials in honor of the heroes of the War." Under a keystone chiseled with the inscription, THE TRIUMPHS OF WAR PERISH-THE TRIUMPHS OF PEACE ENDURE, bronze doors open through a colonnade into a circular hall containing twelve windows and four niches in which statues personifying Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity will soon be enshrined. The building faces Lake Michigan at the corner of Lake View avenue and Diversey Park...