Word: stage
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...find ourselves turning to the morning's headlines with an air of comparative indifference, prepared for the ordinary "local engagements" and "improvements of positions," where a week ago we snatched at the morning paper prepared for the worst. In this country, we have undoubtedly slipped into this tranquil stage behind the heavy barrage of the Loan campaign, which has given us little time for other things. Is the present state of mind one of unjustified confidence? By no means, Hard tests still confront the Allied armies; but the fact that refuses to be explained away is that in the seventh...
...will come to this country in due time. America will soon feel the war as it really can make itself felt. You do not yet know the awful dread with which England's homes have awaited each casualty list. When the time comes, and when the country reaches a stage where, as in England or France, every man you meet who is out of uniform immediately explains his lack of khaki without being asked; then America will be really, heartily in the war, and will truly understand the necessity...
...once was active in the ten-twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...until March 27, two days later, that all the oarsmen had their later, that all the oarsmen had their first chance to go on the water. Despite the decrease in attendance at the University since last year, only three fewer eights are now rowing than at the same stage of crew practice last spring...
This was, I thought, a perfectly innocent subject for an interview, and not impossibly a useful one. But it was lost. And my remarks were gratuitously distorted into an unfounded and idiotic attack on Harvard University. This was done at some stage or other of the preparation, as a reading of the "Illustrated's" article makes evident, merely in the interests of journalistic sensation. And when the injustice of the article as printed was pointed out to the Board of the "Illustrated," these gentlemen with the readiest good-will and in the most honourable fashion did all that was possible...