Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team has improved remarkably in the last two years, in view of the limited facilities, and, with such good material and a keen interest shown, Captain Wentworth and Coach Mann should be able to turn out an excellent team...
...life is sordid and miserable until he finds some great idea which can truly claim his all. Just as a river passes by and serves towns and forests, but does not turn aside from its course toward the great calm of the sea, so the soul, allowing and providing for necessities, still makes its only aim union with the infinite. A poem, to be understood and appreciated, must have one central theme; in the same way life must have its one great purpose and aim or the whole is meaningless and confused...
...first proved the futility of remedying the social evil by segregation, which, he says does not stop the white slave traffic. A social evil law to better the situation is hopeless, for it is unconstitutional. He summed up the fallacies of our present ignorant system as follows: "We turn the entire problem over to police, giving them three distinct powers which they abuse. They are allowed to make pseudo-laws to regulate vice; they are then expected to enforce these laws and punish offenders...
...regarded as the basic cause of evil, and society having thus gotten out of gear, we are obliged to use coercion to maintain order. Evil proves the dignity of life in that it is the right of man to suffer, but it is the duty of man to turn evil to good. As the opposite of joy for work well done, we must pay for evil in the hard coin of pain...
Despite its unevenness, the play is original and diverting, and it seems that with a little rewriting it should prove a "popular success." The second act in which MacFarland is captured by the daughter of the western sheriff,in turn captures a genuine desperado, then is put to bed with him while the young lady sits watching with a rifle in her hands, is farce of the best sort...