Word: unkind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...
...enveloped by unkind fate in the dark storm of war, we are threatened by irreparable loss. The Senior Picnic has gone, the Pudding Show has gone. And many of our classmates have gone, often leaving behind the sad memento of their debts. Yet the worst of all may overwhelm us. The goodies will...
...keeping. But that is only saying that for certain types of verse the best form is a lack of form. There is always the dangerous temptation to express in free verse thoughts that might be more perfectly expressed otherwise. And it is that danger that has led some unkind people to characterize free verse as a vehicle for half-baked thoughts...
...photographs are varied and uniformly excellent. Delicious but a trifle unkind is the picturing of Miracle-Man Shevlin over the words "Harvard 41. Yale 0." This counterbalances the patronizing and pious editorial wish that the Bull Dog may be "resuscitated...
...when it turns the old sentimentalist into the tipsy sharer in student routs and makes the young prince believe that Kaethie's practised smile signifies so much that is personal and intimate. Perhaps it is most German when it turns all the emotions of the young man, set by unkind circumstance over his principality, into a haunting "sehnsucht" that sends him back to Heidelberg--and to disillusion...