Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...course I am expecting the objection that Franklin's activity in France and de Valera's in America are not similar, and that the sacrifices in bodies and blood by Irishmen before the altar of Liberty are not like the successful bloodshed of your human ancestors, the American Revolutionists. I admit the objection. Eamon de Valera is not Benjamin Franklin, and Sinn Feiners are not American Revolutionists. The implication is plain; it tends to explain the CRIMSON's attitude...
...said in defense of Harvard that she has in the last few years displayed genuine sporting blood. Her game with Centre College this year has revealed that and has proven Harvard's willingness to match prowess with teams of the west. Harvard's trip a year ago to California, for battle with the pride of the Pacific coast, furnished further substantiating evidence of Harvard's sporting blood. Better than that Harvard has invited Illinois to a game at Cambridge but Illinois insists that Harvard return such a compliment by matching the Illini at Urbana. Illinois has the same pride that...
Harvard may give in on this point and if so the long sought clash between the two may at last be realized. In that event football would come into its own: sport devotees would be privileged to witness a real blood and iron world's series, something a little new but something cleaner, more wholesome, and entirely untainted from professionalism or commercialization. It would be a fine boon to the sport world...
...American youth is a great lover of sports. Contests for athletic supremacy hold his interest and he has cheers for the game loser as well as a deserving loser. Manliness is the chief desideratum and the only thing that wins his admiration. Red blood is not confined by State boundaries...
Once more a nation has appealed to the League against a provision of the Peace Treaty, and in the name of "self-determination." This time it is Alsace-Lorraine--that darling for whose redemption France poured forth so much blood and treasure--that raises its voice against its liberator. It is Alsace-Lorraine that protests loudly at the high-handed conduct of the French officials, and at being forcefully "annexed" without its consent. Furthermore, the agitation in favor of independence is spreading steadily throughout the districts. Is it for this then, that France has waited fifty years...