Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...insight, and learning enlivened by touches of humor, the artist's feeling for the inevitable phrase--all these qualities combine to make it an enduring contribution to literature. The truth about war, Dr. Shepard points out, is not to be found in Othello's "Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!" but rather in Falstaff's "food for powder, food for powder." And this is the truth that the poets of the present war have expressed. In his "Dead Boche" Robert Graves writes...
...bill for the biggest victory in the history of the world,--a victory cheap at the price. Harvard's record in this war has been a glorious one, and certainly Harvard is not going to fall down on the job. I have absolute trust in the people of New England to do their share to complete the war, to finish the job, to consummate the victory, and bring the boys home...
...promptness of spirit which has been according to the best traditions of Massachusetts. Your University has contributed very largely of its resources in helping the country to win the war. Some of her most valiant sons have given their lives for our country. To a history already full of glorious deeds, Harvard has added new glory to its record. Harvard University has always stood for the defense of American can institutions, and is now continuing to maintain the standard set so many years ago in the early days of the Bay Colony. While hostilities have ceased, and we hope there...
...dated September 27, and told of his being in the Argonne forest. No further word was received until December 19 when a letter of formal condolence came to his mother from a fellow officer who wrote: "We went through it all together and no one put I knows the glorious battle your son put up." Only sixteen of the company of two hundred and fifty survived...
...United States, late to enter the war, made her part more glorious by the gift to world necessities of no inconsiderable number of great men. Above all these stand out President Wilson and ex-President Roosevelt. Mr. Wilson's most notable work was his prompt crystallization in aresting phrases of the basic principles of the Allied cause, an accomplishment which came just in time to knit up loose ends of the national fabric in more Allied countries than one. He interpreted humanity's task in a way that solidified public opinion the world over and made it harder for every...