Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year ago tomorrow at the Memorial Day exercises in memory of Harvard men who had fallen in the war President Lowell, expressing the feeling of the anxious audience, spoke of that occasion as "the darkest day since the United States entered the war." With the German hordes pouring over the Marne, the allied armies apparently unable to give any adequate resistance, civilization seemed very much in the balance. And Memorial Day took on a new significance. Instead of a time-honored function to commemorate the dead of the Civil and the Spanish Wars,--a memory of battles which somehow lacked...
...most opportune that this day should come at a time when our outlook is the darkest it has been since we entered the war. But it is on the darkest night that the stars shine brightest, and so these honored dead must take on a new brilliancy for us today...
...leadership through the moral qualities of integrity and devotion, rather than through intellectual genius. The people admired the philosophical mind of Franklin, the political idealism of Jefferson, the fiery eloquence of Patrick Henry. Many lesser men claimed their respect and attention. But, above all, the colonies in the darkest hour trusted to the integrity of Washington. It was his devotion which sustained the Continental Army at Valley Forge and Morristown, the public confidence in his uprightness as trustee of the presidential powers which made possible the ratification of the Constitution. Coupled with self-sacrificing loyalty, Washington displayed a statesmanlike insight...
...Gammons '18 discusses "Moussorgsky and his Songs." Little is known and much discussion is made about Moussorgsky, that strange embodied essence of darkest Russia; and Mr. Gammons is to be thanked for his analysis of the spirit of the songs...
...pacifists feel intensely the horrors of war, not only in our won land, but throughout the world. They regard it rightly as one of the greatest scourges of mankind--one of the darkest blots on our civilization. They have formed innumerable societies to abolish it; and large sums of money have been given to aid their work. But they give the impression of seeing the end more clearly than the means, and appear to think that war can be forever drowned out by a flood of talk, that the pen can grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak...