Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...book this year will be larger than ever before, containing in the neighborhood of four hundred pages. As compared to the issue of 1915, which was the last published under conditions not influenced by the war, over eighty pages will be added to the size. Moreover, it will contain the complete war records of the classes of 1920, 1921, 1922, obtained through the War Records office. This feature was to some extent present in the small edition of 1917-1918, the last to be published...
Viscount Grey, who has but recently been appointed United States Ambassador, was actively engaged in British Governmental service during the war, being Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1905-1916. During the war he was created first Viscount of Fallodon...
...Kreisler has always scrupulously obeyed the laws of this nation. He left the Austrian army some time before we declared war on that empire. Large parts of his earnings have been devoted to the upkeep of a home for indigent artists and musicians, and until recently he sent money to several British and French officers--musicians and artists--who were held in Austria. It is not unlikely, as he himself points out, that while he is prevented from following his profession, and unable to continue the remittances, these officers will be hard put for a living...
During the war it would have been impossible for Mr. Kreisler to play in public. But the fighting is over, there is no excuse for its hysteria to continue. What might have been a patriotic stand during the heat of the conflict becomes now merely bigotry and intolerance, entirely out of place in free America...
...Labor Party of the United States, created in Chicago last Monday, is likely to become a Frankenstein monster unless a pretty sharp eye is kept on its development. It holds potentialities that on the whole bode no good to the country. It is the formal declaration of class war in America; and we have seen what class war means wherever it has been waged. But there is still time to spike the guns of the new party. The only question is whether those who hold the spikes are broad-minded and observant enough to see their chance...