Word: personally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deliver method of extracting a criticism from the reviewer when the paper to be criticized was presented to you almost without warning, and with it a virtual ultimatum that your review must be ready in three hours, now comes, with all possible courtesy and consideration, no less a person than the president of the Advocate himself, two or three weeks before he wants his review, to ask when it will be agreeable for you to write it. Encouraged by his assurance that you may take your time, you even dare to tell the zealous candidate for the CRIMSON, when...
This may be all very well for a nation that respects its treaty obligations, but how about Germany, whose most solemn pledges are only "scraps of paper" when it pleases her to violate them? Does any sane person think for a moment that she would give us a "reasoned declaration" if she wanted to strike first? Boston Post...
First, what is private honor? Its meanings are legion. But its aggressive phase is the feeling that deliberate injuries to one's pride or person or kin make requital dearer than life itself. This is so part of us that we instinctively scorn anyone who questions it. Yet is it a reliable guide, after all? History's variegated standards of honor prove no. Honor constrained the medieval knight to make quixotic fighting tours to glorify a lady whom he never saw. Honor dictated family feuds like that of the Montagues and Capulets. Honor involved private war after every injury. Today...
...clock. A travesty of the fall play will be given by the new members, as an initiation ceremony. The recently elected officers of the club will be inaugurated and plans for the spring production will be discussed. A charge of $1.50 will be made for each person in attendance. All members of the Dramatic Club are invited...
...Victoria Hotel, Boston, on Friday evening, February 23. On this occasion the initiation of all new members will take place and the recently elected officers of the club will be inaugurated. All members of the Dramatic Club are invited, there being a charge of $1.50 for each person attending...