Word: said
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...history and history-making in the last hundred years or so. Mr. Fortescue was speaking in London, and he referred to the way they were handicapped by the fact that they only knew one side of affairs. Writing a history of the war before the war was over, he said, when they did not know what the issue would be; when they knew nothing of the other side, nothing of the diplomatic work, nothing of scandals and wirepulling, was impossible. Christian Science Monitor...
...many years ago newspapers, magazines and public opinion delighted in referring to Harvard as "The Rich Man's College," dubbing it in derision an exclusive finishing school for the scions of plutocratic families. A man of ordinary circumstances, they said, had as much chance of achieving distinction at Cambridge as the rich man has of making his way into heaven...
...weight so nicely fitted to the shoulders of its audience that we may be pardoned for the roundabout method. Those who go to such a play desire neither the delicacy of an English comedy, nor what we often have in a French one, a hinting at things not said. They want and they get a typical American force, a Kaleidoscopic series of incidents (the plot foreseen from the first) built around the ability of the leading character to be funny...
...expect to be at full war strength in Great Britain until the spring of next year," said Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, speaking in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. "At that time the nation will at last be fully prepared industrially and in the field. July 1, 1916, was a momentous day for the British 'Tommy' for on that day the war realy began, as far as the Allies are concerned and with the first rush of the Somme offensive the British soldier, inexperienced and hastily trained, proved himself the equal, nay, the superior...
...cause of civilization. They had built the fire for Richard; but they did a good deal more. The mother became a volunteer nurse in the hospital at Neuilly. Before she came she had written a letter to Abbe Klein, the chaplain of the hospital at Neuilly, in which she said: "As I write, the clock strikes two, perhaps the very hour when life forsook our child. I am often awake in these early hours and my heart goes to you all in France." Then she gave her own service, and sent her other boy to take Richard's place...