Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country into the European conflict. It has been in many ways a hard year and in many more a great one. It has been fundamental changes in our national life which will perhaps mold the destiny of our future. It is a year of which we may well take stock, both for the satisfaction of the present and for the hope of the days which are to come...
...Well, Copey, my twin brother was killed in France last week. You never knew him because he went to Yale, but he was a fine fellow. He would have been manager of the football team there last fall if he had stayed in college, and he was president of Scroll and Keys when he left for France. That is not an infallible proof that he was all right, but it shows what his own class thought of him, and you can take my word for it anyway, that you don't meet a man of his ability and kindness...
...hoping for it, and I know only too well that perhaps I am not worthy of it anyway. My chief concern now is to get abroad, and when I get there to do my damnedest to avenge my brother's death. I won't stand for anything less than the complete conquering of the devils who let this hell on earth loose. Whatever my part is to be I intend that it shall at least be one that is felt by some German or Germans, and I have gritted my teeth to see this thing through and hang on like...
...first of these is the supercession of the famous War Council of Versailles by the single commander, General Foch. The general is well known to students of military questions through courses he has given at the French War College. It is safe to say that the appointment of a supreme commander is a step in the right direction; the next thing will be to equip him with a general staff capable of handling the combined armies...
...Getting Together," at the Majestic, is dramatized propaganda, and as such ranks as the best piece that has touched Boston this season. It is as plotless as the Follies and as well equipped scenically as that hardy annual, but there the comparison ceases. Ziegfeld capitalizes pulchritude and "Getting Together" does the same thing with patriotism...