Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...production set in so delightful a key has to be something more than a mere picture, or even a mere dramatization; it ought to be a play in its own right, and this "Major Pendennis" is not. It is little else but a string of amatory episodes arbitrarily put together without much skill. The adapter needs a link more enduring than Mr. Drew to correlate his rosary of prettily colored beads. In a former play, "Becky Sharp," adapted on much the same method, he had such a link in the radiant personality of Mrs. Fiske. She "made" the play...
...three months, the same drill that is given to the enlisted recruits, and then those who demonstrate that they will make good officers, are sent to a cadet school for six or seven months of intensive training. Men who have completed the course in these cadet schools are put in command of reserve troops in England for a short period before being sent to the front...
Whatever vestige of exterior and shallow judgments remains with us should now fall away in the levelling of war. When a thousand men are put in uniform the incipient politician may not measure the great or the near-great by examining whether their shoes are custom-made, or their hats come from New York. The prettiest fop does not show distinction in company front after an afternoon of drill in column and line formations. The assurance gained in talking to paid and obedient servants does not help greatly in telling a platoon of strong and aggressive men to deploy...
...victorious fight. But now that we have conquered our hesitancy, now that we have conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping not one stride short of victory. We will put a new idealism into the conflict of national ideals, so that other peoples may know the greatness of our national spirit, and wonder as they admire at the emerging of our power...
...clock yesterday morning when the House convened that it would follow the lead of the Senate and definitely commit the nation to conflict, and the greater part of the long discussion was taken up by the short speeches of various members who supported the measure, but wished to put themselves on record as reluctantly accepting war as the only course of honor. The one final step which will make the resolution complete is the signature of President Wilson, which will be affixed early this morning...