Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...
...Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, a man who, in the desolation of his country, stood as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land...
...overseas correspondent of the New York Times declared in a recent news dispatch to that paper that "Bolshevism . . . . is the revengeful shadow of reckless modern materialism." Surely this definition by one who is in close touch with the movement and its leaders has its lesson for those who are working frantically to stay the onward course of this anarchic engine of destruction. Their naive attempts to decapitate a beast of this nature by military imprisonment and misdirected propaganda results only in three heads springing up where one grew before. To rid society of the menace of Bolshevism, we must strike...
...mouth, he struts through the Yard sometimes even condescending to answer the greeting of the upperclassman. To say that this is true of all present Freshmen is of course absurd. There are many who stick to old traditions and behave as they should, but these pass unnoticed in the shadow of the aggressive prep-school star...
...shadow Huns have voices. Ghosts speak, but behind their words is neither substance nor reason, only terror and despair gasping a last few envenomed phrases, phrases lost in the great roar of the machinery they could not stop and the tramp, tramp, tramp of a million men. New York...