Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regard to that depressing thing--the play's message--we cannot say a great deal. It undertakes to be a dramatic discussion of the disadvantages of married life and proceeds to discuss them, as we have said, for three hours on a stretch. A more correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike...
...Peace Union says we have nothing to gain by war. Nothing material--no land, money, citizens, privileges; nothing except a certain amount of prestige, a certain reputation of self-protection. Nothing but respect--a small thing when "honor" is not at stake...
...want war. We are in complete accond with the belief that all international questions ought to be decided through diplomatic channels and by reference to arbitration courts and boards of inquiry. But the actual situation has passed beyond the control of such remedies. This thing the pacifists forget. They look to the future, ignoring the dangers of the present time. Their means of solving international disputes may be successful in a later and happier century, but they have no force now in compelling Germany to recognize those rights we claim...
...text book idea of this country's isolation in world affairs has been conclusively disproved by recent events," said Professor Robert Matteson Johnston, in his talk to the Freshman Debating Society in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "We must recast our whole ideas of European relations. The first thing to be done is, of course, to get an army; and few realize that this takes time. It would be six years before a first class force of troops could be created to compete with any of the Powers...
...cannot see far ahead. No predictions as to the length or the fortunes of the present war are reliable. But after months of painful doubt and despite the dark prospect of suffering and sacrifice, we can at least be sure that today the bold thing to do is also the wise and the necessary thing to do. We have been cautious and prudent. We have been patient to the verge of dishonor. At length it is permitted us to go forward, one in thought and deed, and to be in the sight of all men that high-spirited nation that...