Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ingredients enough to make a brilliant little one-act farce, the producers of "His Bridal Night," now playing at Ye Wilbur Theatre, have spread the material at hand through three acts of more or less questionable uproariousness. Success of farce is due largely to the rapidity with which the thing moves, and certainly two or three big scenes, no matter how ludicrous, are not sufficient to keep a laugh-hungry audience busy for a full evening. This deficiency has evidently been noticed by the sponsors of the play, so they have sought to hide it under a copiousness of suggestive...
...first battle has been fought. La Follette has been defeated. The next thing is to conquer Germany...
...petitions which are being circulated asking for the establishment of universal service should be signed by every man who has a broad regard for the interest of his nation. The signature of any one man may not seem a great thing. Yet the signature of many thousands of patriotic men may move our national legislature...
...regard to this country sending over an expeditionary force in case of war with Germany, I rather doubt whether the British would welcome such a move. From my experience in Europe it seems to me the best thing the United States can do is to start right away to get an army ready and secure efficiency, and then if a time comes to go, they will be trained men, and greatly desired over there. The two ways the United States can help the Allies is by loans of money and the convoying of supply ships by war vessels. The Allies...
...mind the best thing the undergraduates at Harvard can do is to form a corps and offer themselves to the Government, but it is highly improbable that any fighters from this country will go across the water for a while. A United States expeditionary force will need a certain amount of medical men and it will be the experienced men who will be desired the most. The Harvard men who have been over there do not feel as if they are able to give up their home practice unless a force goes over, but if one does sail these doctors...