Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whose wish it was to have King Albert become a Doctor of Laws. Harvard is situated in the midst of a suburb of Boston, at Cambridge, which is a sort of small paradise of quietness, an oasis of green foliage where it must be delightful to study and to dream...
...treaty prolongs war and thirst. Just at the time when people are looking forward to a different and more liberal order of things has the Senate so cynically proved to us that the sacrifices of the last two years have been in vain. Little did the poor unsuspecting public dream that the partisans of party politics would carry matters so far. Little did they think that a senator of the United States would place his party before his cup. But there are whisperings abroad that those same thirst-inspiring senators have "a jug 'neath the bough" carefully stored away. What...
...MacVeagh believes with O. Henry that a dream is a vehicle for literary effect which is always convenient, conventional and unassailable. In this way he launches a spirited attack on Mr. Wilson, the Peace Conference, and all who feel like letting the Germans down lightly, in a way that would delight an Old Guard Republican. He leaves no doubt in the mind of the reader as to his political leanings...
Before this reaches you I shall be at the front. I regret that it will not be with my own. They are wonderful, and Europe is breathing a new air because of them. They have the vision--and the dreams of old men are coming true. I wish I could tell you the great pride and faith and elation the recognition of their spirit gives us. To be an American is today the proudest thing in the world. But even when one is not fighting as one of them--even though he wears another color, he is fighting with...
...upon the threshold of an appreciable participation, it is for us to redouble our efforts toward effectively aiding those heroic peoples who have so long borne the brunt of the battle, and who, even now, are sorely pressed for our assistance. America has for a year been in a dream, patting herself on the back for the purity of ideals which only a few of her men have yet actively supported. America must come down to the bed rock of reality...