Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Senators can wave the American flag and shout their Fourth of July oratory till they are black in the face; actions speak louder than words. Over all the turmoil there is still audible the faint flapping noise of the Prussian eagle's wings. The German's can be excused. They are Germans. The Senators, however, will find that they will have some quick explaining to do at the next elections before the American people will excuse them...
...secretary to every five hundred soldiers the impossibility of every man measuring up to the standard set by the soldiers is seen. Think of the films that have been showing the "Y" man delivering supplies in the trenches just before the "zero hour" and you will get a faint understanding of what the Y. M. C. A. has really done for the American Army in France. Cornell...
...photographs which are appropriate, the progressive arrangement of photography and literature to the page has a soothing effect on one's sense of proportion; furthermore, and happily, "those who are," at headquarters realize that the Illustrated can be the Illustrated and still contain reading matter. There is a faint touch of the latter by the presence of Professor Cestre's sincere warning, faint touch in regard to the quantity of the article which in quality and significance is more akin to smashing contact...
...brave man will die for the sake of honor. Should he refuse to faint for the sake of cleanliness...
...cleanliness is next to Godliness. The glorified soldiers might be pardoned a desire to flap their sprouting wings and fly away, bright gun and all, in the extasy of their scrubbed perfection. But instead they must wait in agony at attention while one man after another is damned with faint praise, or blasted with none...