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...inference in such public immodesties? Is there any method whereby these females may be restrained from vulgarizing and holding up to ridicule a name so far held as honorable among us? Can they continue to misrepresent the American ladies whose sons and husbands are proud to prepare to defend them, and who are too busy lending their hands to aid and comfort those same dear men to defend themselves against such embarrassing associations, however falsely assumed...
...proclaimed his defensive intentions ("Herr Roosevelt has commanded his ships to shoot as soon as they see German ships. And I have commanded German ships, whenever they see American ships, not to shoot thereupon, but to defend themselves as soon as they are attacked"). At about this time German U-boats were sighted lurking defensively within sight of Newfoundland's northern...
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Although its title "Maids We Have Known and Loved" was harmless enough, it would be futile to defend the article. According to its author's own statement in "Scan," the Smith newspaper, it is definitely in poor taste. The maids were certainly justified in protesting. But the logic of the college in considering the magazine as "an official Smith publication," and on that ground ordering its suspension until a new board is elected, seems to us to be faulty...
Life became even more exciting when Byron met Margarita Cogni, La Fornarina (the Little Oven), "a fierce product of Venetian slums and backways." Marianna tried to 'defend her prior rights against Margarita, but was crushed by superior logic...