Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question is one of approach rather than of godlessness. There is such a thing as primitive abject worship: there is such a thing as a sense of humor, and the two will clash as long as men are borer into this world. RICHARD RATUJE...
...Harry declared that international unfriendliness will lead to a war, just as it caused the last. "The politicians will start the thing," he said, "and then you'll have to go. And I know that you don't want to kill anybody. My boy didn't want to kill anybody, and yet he died in the trenches like...
...pacifism in war time is inexcusable. But pacifism in time of peace is a very different thing. And for the men who wish to impress in the world the utter absurdity of contemplating war there can be nothing but favorable and enthusiastic applause." This, I understand to mean that war is not even to be contemplated in peacetime and also that peace or any effort to obtain peace in time of war is anathema. In other words, a doctor is a very appropriate person to have around while one is well but when one becomes sick. Away with him. This...
...will it do any good for men to pledge themselves to anything." Then we may thing about pacifism during peacetime but we must not do anything about it. Considering the alacrity with which delegates are capable of pledging and unpledging themselves, I should not think it would do much harm...
...original hero of "Soldiers of Fortune," may be considered as marking the end of an epoch. The adventurous, romantic kind of warfare in which he won his fame may still exist in remote places, although even Mexico is amusing herself with airplanes and gas, but as a general thing it is gone forever,--and with it the chances for those Herculean exploits which have held readers enchanted from the days of Homer to the somewhat more recent ones of Richard Harding Davis...