Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise in his place. Life has become clouded, but not destroyed. Each dead man in France lives in the minds of our people. It makes us bitter, but it has called forth a new American spirit. Sacrifice, the greatest power of mankind, has come to permeate our national life. Our sons are gone. "It is for us, the living . . . to be dedicated . . . . . to the unfinished work which they who fought . . . . . . have thus far so nobly advanced...
...University's total of deaths has been rising at an increasing rate for the last year. We can have no hope that the rate will sink again. More and more we shall be called upon to face the bitter and yet proud griefs that our allies have suffered before us. We honor our dead as brave men who have given everything for a cause, but we must not stop to mourn too long. The greatest service we can do them is to "carry on" against the power that made them...
...manner that makes one itch for the actual hunting grounds. Sir, I admire, sympathize with, and love the French, but it's the British to whom I give my respect. They've got the 'spirit of the bayonet'; they've changed their easy going temperament and, taught by bitter experience, answer the cry 'Kamerad' with a short sharp jab; they're fighting mad, playing the game for all it's worth. System? They've got everything down to a fine point; a great part of the time the Tommies don't even realize that the games they are playing...
...upperclassmen were not of a generous nature, they should feel bitter that the Freshmen were to be treated to the best of Harvard first of all. Some of them do experience a tinge of envy. Others there are who are wiser and have made plans. This is an era of camouflage. These sagacious upperclassmen will walk into Smith Halls Common Room tonight in the guise of Freshmen. They are powerful men, so we should like to give a word of advice to the Freshmen. If you wish a seat or even a place at Copey's reading tonight, be there...
...have one request I am going to make you. Please make every one realize that this is a long war if we want to stick to it until we have reached a victorious conclusion. And to make our sacrifices worth while, we must stay in the struggle to the bitter end. It is not we men on the firing line who will win this war. It is you who stay at home, sacrificing comforts and money to feed and clothe us. We are under your orders, and just as long as you hang on, we will fight as well...