Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...battlefield, on the sea or under it or in the air. At this time the most important form of auxiliary service I believe to be co-operation with the American Red Cross. Such co-operation can be effected best through membership; and all those who by reason of sex, age or physical disability, are prevented from going to the front are being urged to join during the Christmas membership campaign starting December 16 and ending Christmas Eve. In that week the Red Cross hopes-- and confidently expects--to get ten million new members--at least...
...excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike a false note, until one suddenly wakes up to the fact that it is really the play's manifesto, and that the Mayoress is the eternal Woman, the eternal Eve, pleading for her misunderstood sex, or rather analyzing it with prenatural cleverness and a certain poetry, for the benefit of her male hearers...
...prefer life and the "pursuit of happiness" to the "dictates of humanity" and national honor. What one of you is there to whom the honor of your women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...
There, also, was the group of girls who went alone, and looked down, from the heights of the hard student, on the handsome girls of their class who sallied to the party in company with the unexplained representative of his sex, man. There also, pitiable in the eyes of her who lives in the world, were the dean's assistants of the girls' college, just as placid and calm and unstirred by great living as they were four years ago. All was the same with them, strictly academic, all the same except a few pounds of added avoirdupois...
...attend. The consequent revolution in the usual course of life, the abnormal excitement, would carry men off their feet, and they would flock to the dance. But the University system is saner,--also less expensive. And the term "Junior prom" still has a wondrous thrilling appeal to the other sex...