Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time we go up we can look across the neck to the tall yellow sand-dunes on the shore of the gray Atlantic. The shooting from the plane is wonderful fun, and soon we are to shoot at targets towed behind other machines. The morale of the place is splendid, no roll-calls or formations or guards or drill, yet everything goes smoothly and everyone here is happy...
...rich natural resources and universal prosperity will naturally receive a larger and larger share of our surplus capital. Politically, we can have nothing but good-will for Canada's free and democratic government, which is in many respects a model for our own. But without impugning Canada's splendid loyalty to the British Empire, we should support all agreements tending to unite more closely the great English-speaking commonwealths of North America...
...into service and he accepts too readily the theory that as a result scholastic attainment is of small importance. Serious thought will refute such an idea. If a man does get into the army or navy the success with which he has pursue his studies here will be of splendid service to him in those fields. If he does not get into uniform, he must take his place as a leader in the era of reconstruction to follow. There education is not only an aid, it is indispensable. We are getting our real start in education while in such...
...deep personal obligation I owe the youth who has taken my place in the ranks. I want him to know my feeling. I want him to know that so far as my means and strength will allow, I intend to back him up in his cheerful and splendid service...
...difficulty in driving out of his head. Few of them make any impression at all. One exception to this is a song entitled "Oh My!" which Mr. Brian, aided by a male chorus which can actually sing, succeeds in getting across. There are no great beauties in staging, no splendid costuming. The humor, decidedly reminiscent, takes one back to good old antediluvian days and many of the lines which are presented to Mr. Frank Youlan, who upholds the comic muse, might well have been left out for all the mirth they provoked...