Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more cruel than those of other countries. The leaders, the rulers, it is true, have been barbarous in the extreme but the people are hated their enforced treachery as such as have the subject nations who save suffered from it. The massacres in Armenia were not caused by the blood thirstiness of the population but by the fact that the rulers ordered massacres and had to be obeyed. There has never been mob rule in Turkey--the civil population has always been only too willing to follow the man with authority...
...Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence." But the only casualty in the scores of games played in France and in the Rhine country by the twice-heroes of the American Expeditionary Forces was a broken arm. The explanation is that the code...
Enter the Bulldog! With blood in his eye he invades the Stadium this afternoon to wipe out the sting of early season defeats and carry back to the elmbowered streets of New Haven the scalp of John Harvard. Anyone who knows the Bulldog of old knows that he is a fighter; that the words of the prophets are likely to be violently upset, and that the game is not won till the final shrill blast of the whistle...
...determined band of citizens might possibly feel that there was no alternative to taking upon itself the execution of justice, and proudly abiding the consequences. But does Mr. Rosenblatt really think so badly of Omaha's administration, or see in a herd of men that yelp themselves into blood-lust, and then scuttle like rabbits, her true patriots? We ask leave to doubt...
...they are to understand, they, must be spoken to in their own language of blood and iron. They must realize completely that Germany and Kultur have both been defeated, and can never succeed. Then there will come a time for instruction in the language of civilization and humanity--not before...