Word: quenched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life clearly, to be individuals. If students wish the undeniable benefits of physical training, regimentation and patriotism which service with the R. O. T. C. gives, no instructor tries to dissuade them. Instructors at the University of Wisconsin, as at all U. S. colleges where mass opinion does not quench their souls, are honest gentlemen, not perverters of youth...
...Shakespeare, Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however true, alone and unaided hold those audiences and make them return to quench again their thirst...
...Casey, representative of the American Federation of Labor, much impressed, said, pandering: "We in America boast of our great republic and our great democracy, but we must come to England, Scotland and Ireland to observe pure democracy and to sit down to quench our thirst with anything we like...
These are situations which may mean much or nothing. To some, they will seem but flimsy foundations for the outbreak of war, but on just such frailties have wars been built. When once alight, the flame is hard to quench. Nothing could prove this more strikingly than the memories which this anniversary evokes. The wave of patriotism and of war-hysteria began in minor size, but, once started, it carried everything before...
...singers of the English poetic renaissance of the seventeenth century, none sang more sweetly than Richard Lovelace whose tiny body of musical verse still delights the lovers of poetry. Imprisonment for his part in the Revolution in 1642 could not quench his ardor nor still his lyre, and he sang unceasingly of his Aramantha or his Lucasta. His lyrics have all the freshness of the Elizabethan morning, and breathe the spirit of liberty that characterized his age and is the keynote of the work of such of his followers as Byron and Shelley...