Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing is unusual, and faintly hopeful, about the latest Advocate: the editorials are the best part of it. They are brief, timely, pointed, sane, and well expressed. There is a letter from the former president, now at Yaphank, which is frank and entertaining. There is a short poem by Mr. Cowley, whose work always shows intelligence and distinction. There is some incontrovertible wisdom on the war by Mr. C. MacVeagh. And that is about all that one can find to praise...
...thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...whole spirit of Prussianism. The training of years has done its work. The German has been led to pour out his blood to as full measure as any of his opponents, but he knows not why. As he pays tribute to his comrades who have fallen, the most glorious thing he can say is that they "died for their Kaiser." What free men will offer their lives to the ambitions of a single leader? It passes the imagination of us who are fighting for great ideals that such a thought could be widely accepted today. It indicates a condition...
...hope that, presently, when the scales had fallen from deluded but honest eyes, we might reach a basis which would offer the poor comfort of a gradual rapprochement. But the Teutonic allies are not such nations--not any of them. They are, together, notorious for the lack of the things mentioned above. So, behind each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton of other wars; of national and personal deceit; of the advance repudiation of the very obligations they propose to take; of the absolute indifference to Right; of the utter lack of aggregate and individual honor. All these...
...most important thing that the country can learn at this time touching the world situation is the fact, the actual fact, the stern fact, that we are engaged in war. We are so far removed from the conflict, there is so little suffering about us, so little that speaks of war, that the mind can hardly grasp the fact that the Nation is mobilizing with tremendous rapidity its entire strength for the supreme effort ahead of it, and that those in authority realize that this strength in the fullest is going to be needed. The people...