Briefest and biggest of all words thrust by the Great War into the fore-ranks of speech, the word rang aloud upon the summer air. A kernel of compressed menace, it burst explosively, spread elastically, until the very sky--the peaceful, lamb's-wool New England sky--seemed darkened by its threat, until the brown buds, withered in their tender youth, and the rags of yellow grasses blighted before by its poisoned breath, trembled and wilted, as it were, anew!…
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