Word: taming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with a serious purpose to help France. Those who would plan a three months outing had best stay at home; the tourist spirit has already caused grave trouble over here. Men who are willing to come here must be ready to spend long weeks of work which may appear tame and stupid. There is very little romance in carting wounded men from a railway station to the hospital; however, one squad has carried over 9,500 sick and wounded during a period of three months. War being the uncertain game that it is, the work of the ambulances may mean...
...individual actors none stand out except G. P. Gardner and W. S. Sea-mans--Mutt and Jeff--both of whom are exceedingly good. R. C. Foster puts a good deal of spirit into a rather tame part, and J. G. Blaine manages his two songs well. The girls are moderately charming: and the choruses are well trained, active, and effectively made...
...medical profession offers the man who wants to fight a good fight every opportunity. Professor James has complained that the world is in danger of becoming too tame and of losing those manly virtues that were fostered by war. In medicine a man will find great campaigns waged which call for the highest sort of physical and moral courage...