Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The Star has never believed that the hoodlumism which has found its expression in the burning of British flags in New York sity was representative of an even appreciable proportion of real American sentiment. It is encouraging to note that three of the most representative of New York newspapers--the...
Canadian and Canadian newspapers will naturally find it difficult not to resent keenly the action of this gutter element among our nearest neighbors at the expense of an emblem which means a good deal to us. But we should realize that the insult is less to the British flag than...
For the same hands that are now so busy tearing down and defiling the national emblem of America's greatest ally and would-be warmest friend were the busiest in their endeavors to frustrate America's own efforts in the Great War. The same spirit tramples the Union Jack in...
The simian impulse to make trouble, to substitute hatred and ill-feeling for common interest, cooperation and mutual esteem between the two great English-speaking nations, reacts not against Britain, British dominions or British interests, but against the United States itself, whose authority is flouted and whose reputation for the...
"Open covenants, openly arrived at" is an obsolete phrase in present European politics. The first meeting of the League of Nations, from which so many good tidings were to be spread around the world, has relegated that principle to the junk-heap of "new world idealism." The Council of the...