Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conduct of war. Now we find that minute minority striving to bend the vast majority to its wishes. It is not content with its own freedom of choice. It will choose for the whole nation. That is their desired personal liberty. That is the freedom of choice which they proclaim...
...seldom formed in old or middle age, and national habits particularly develop during the youth of one generation to be inherited by all future generation. The undergraduates of Harvard and all other American colleges must lead the way in the forming of this new, and what the future will proclaim, most valuable of all American habits, that of taking an intelligent, active interest in America's national problems. Just as the citizens of the past century were engrossed in the welfare of their respective states, so we, the citizens of the twentieth century, must regard the United States...
...tassel till it does not dangle in his eye but caressingly tickles him just in front of the left ear, and thus arrayed in the scholastic armor, struts or strides proudly across the green but erupted Yard. He is a Senior--he needs no button nor mustache to proclaim that fact now. He is a Senior--let the world look and admire...
...incompetence. Undoubtedly, incomepetence is commoner--because less easily detected--among critics of music than in those of the other arts. The indefiniteness and intangibility of music grants a quasi-impunity to the opinions, however extravagant, of any Tom, Dick or Harry of journalism who has the assurance to proclaim them; in consequence, musical criticism has long been a refuge for journalists who have been failures in other fields...