Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American honor. Now, the Harvard Union for American Neutrality is in itself a repudiation of the President's brave words, for the United States is not now neutral, even officially, and this Union, hearing that the President takes an important step to preserve honor, has the supreme effrontery to say that "honor is not at stake...
...this number as in other issues of the Illustrated since it became a bimonthly publication, it is evident that the paper has not yet struck the proper balance between illustrations and reading matter. Several of the writers take more space than their subject matter required, to say their bit, and there are several lapses from vigorous, pungent writing which should characterize a paper of this kind...
...regard to that depressing thing--the play's message--we cannot say a great deal. It undertakes to be a dramatic discussion of the disadvantages of married life and proceeds to discuss them, as we have said, for three hours on a stretch. A more correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike...
...say we have forced the situation; on the contrary we have been doing our best not to face it at all. Now we can no longer ignore...
...noted that they are sailing on a French ship. There are no American liners now on the Atlantic. If Germany should do as she says she will do, and that liner is sunk, will any of the false sophistries with which some men have blinded themselves suffice us then? Will we say, remembering those young men as our friends and our compatriots, that Germany was "justified"? Will we say that the laws of war or the laws of existence permit the sacrifice of the citizens of neutral nations...