Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...urged that although the form of government is different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical Latin sentimentality, let the noble sentimentality of the Belgian people which saved...
...method, he had such a link in the radiant personality of Mrs. Fiske. She "made" the play in the sense that through the subtle comedy of her characterization the play literally held together, a coherent, self-justified whole. It is not the fault of the star, but one cannot say this of "Major Pendennis...
...Colombians say that we violated the Treaty of 1846 when we acquired the Canal Zone in 1903. To my mind there has been no effective answer to this. The Treaty of 1846 provided that we should guarantee the neutrality of Panama and should guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia there, in return for which we were to get important commercial concessions. History shows that we repeatedly reassured Colombia that the treaty would be adhered to, and in the late' seventies we told the European powers that any interference in Colombia affairs would be considered obnoxious by the United States...
Just where the climax of the play itself was, it would be hard to say, but those who were present were well aware when the climax of the evening came--when the Misses Dolly sang "Beware of Pink Pajamas." This number brought much applause and no little interest. But that is the pity of the whole thing. Why could not more musical features have been introduced? If the authors objected to turning their farce into a musical comedy their objections stand in the way of their gaining more laurels. Although mixing categories is an awful danger among dramatists, a hybrid...
Next to these two Mr. Malcolm Cowley's clever and attractive verses "On Visiting the Revere" form the most striking contribution to the number, while, of the remaining poems, it is perhaps enough to say that, with possibly a single exception, all are worthy of the place they have won in the Advocate. The stories, too, are well written, though slight and immature artistically, as compared with the verse, and depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool...