Word: showings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...said a sad farewell and prepared to give them a wholesale funeral noteworthy even in Cambridge. What was our surprise to see them all come back, physically marred, yet alive; they had not killed this Goliath but they had given him a must entertaining afternoon. The score does not show how close the game really was; the Informals played better than they ken how. They plowed through Black for gain after gain; they spilled Barrett time after time, they even out punted him. It was a great exhibition of fight and "pep." Before the game the betting was merely...
...ruled France with an iron hand, cowing the Chamber into submission, and countering every German intrigue. The other politicians have failed in their efforts to keep the country and their representatives united; it is time to try a man of different' character and ideals. May Clemenceau, as fighting Premier, show as much energy and vitality as he has in fighting the recent cabinets in France...
...Justice. These men might have joined the Foreign Legion, but they would have lost the distinctiveness of nationality. They might have mingled with French units, but they preferred to remain the sons of their own country. Love of adventure was not so much the incentive as a desire to show the world that the United States was not as apathetic as it seemed. Such men could not be persuaded to neutrality as an answer to insults. Their sense or what was right called for active opposition, not passive submission...
...Documents captured recently show that the Bolsheviki are not mainly Russian idealists, but German propagandists. The socialist Democrats are undoubtedly sincere...
...Petrograd populace to the red party of anarchy. For however radical Kerensky may have appeared to our eyes, yet he was a nationalist, and had a firm, and reasonably constructive view of foreign affairs. The victorious parties have no leadership, except from Berlin, and no principles, except to show their appreciation for democracy by openly fighting for autocracy. Until, worn out by their excesses, the people react and demand a conservative, stable government, there is no hope for the Allies from Russia, and judging from past revolutions that period will be long. Nations have seen years of blood before...