From Cornfield to Press Gallery: Adventures and Reminiscences of a Veteran Washington CorrespondentW. F. Roberts Company, 1924 - 432 pagini |
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Pagina 20
... Louis , whose lucubrations filled many columns of the weekly paper that came to our log cabin home . My parents decided to invert his " No opera bouffe character ever presented a more grotesque 20 From Cornfield to Press Gallery.
... Louis , whose lucubrations filled many columns of the weekly paper that came to our log cabin home . My parents decided to invert his " No opera bouffe character ever presented a more grotesque 20 From Cornfield to Press Gallery.
Pagina 23
... paper in the city , I divined that it might be the most likely to listen to reason . It was an epochal period in the life of Louis Leon Ludlow , the budding young journalist , when on that bright June morning I showed up at the old Sun ...
... paper in the city , I divined that it might be the most likely to listen to reason . It was an epochal period in the life of Louis Leon Ludlow , the budding young journalist , when on that bright June morning I showed up at the old Sun ...
Pagina 25
... paper he sized me up quizzically , but did not waste words . After a few preliminary questions , he stepped out with me into the other room , where the uncommunicative individual was still sitting at the desk , poring over the ...
... paper he sized me up quizzically , but did not waste words . After a few preliminary questions , he stepped out with me into the other room , where the uncommunicative individual was still sitting at the desk , poring over the ...
Pagina 26
... paper was regarded as the last word in literary excellence . He was the best descriptive writer I have ever known in all of my range of experience . Many of the prose pieces he wrote for the Indianapolis Sun were classics . He also was ...
... paper was regarded as the last word in literary excellence . He was the best descriptive writer I have ever known in all of my range of experience . Many of the prose pieces he wrote for the Indianapolis Sun were classics . He also was ...
Pagina 28
... paper on the board where the artist drew his cartoons and bade me to go to it . Then he vanished . The first thing I did was to close the door . The second thing I did was to pray on bended knees to the Almighty that I might be able to ...
... paper on the board where the artist drew his cartoons and bade me to go to it . Then he vanished . The first thing I did was to close the door . The second thing I did was to pray on bended knees to the Almighty that I might be able to ...
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Pagina 401 - For I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in. Naked and you covered me; sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.
Pagina 37 - O friend, never strike sail to a fear ! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
Pagina 246 - The saving of neutral life, the freedom of the seas, and without orphaning a single American child, without widowing a single American mother, without firing a single gun, without the shedding of a single drop of blood, he has wrung from the most militant spirit that ever brooded above a battlefield an acknowledgment of American rights and an agreement to American demands.
Pagina 194 - ... talking Buncombe, or talking for Buncombe, is related in Wheeler's History of North Carolina. " Several years ago the member in Congress for the district of Buncombe rose to address the House, without any extraordinary gifts either in manner or in matter to interest the audience. Many members arose and left the hall. Very naively he told those who remained that they might go also, as he should speak for some time, but was only speaking for Buncombe.
Pagina 401 - Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world : for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me in : naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came unto me . . . Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Pagina 395 - That this organization strongly reaffirms its position, set forth by resolution adopted at its annual convention at St. Louis. Mo., in May 1951, that the Constitution of the United States should be amended so as to provide that treaties which affect individual rights or infringe upon or alter the Constitution or other domestic law of the United States or of any State shall not become the supreme law of the land unless duly implemented by act of Congress; that no law implementing a treaty may be passed...
Pagina 12 - The petitioners, as may be imagined, " stood not upon the order of their going, but went at once," and after their departure the President narrated the facts which I have given.
Pagina 363 - He did not wear his heart on his sleeve for daws to peck at ; but tenderness governed his demeanor with those he trusted ; and he wore about him a quiet grace of dignity. Woodrow Wilson was a deeply religious man. Men who do not understand the religious spirit need not even try to understand him. No man in supreme power in any nation's life, since Gladstone, was...
Pagina 395 - But of one thing I am absolutely certain; and that is that nothing but mischief can be done by pretending that Mars and Mercury, Militarism and Commerce, are Christianity, or that the ladies and gentlemen who sit under Mr. Morgan Gibbon in Stamford Hill are Christians living in a Christian country. The simple fact that they are not in prison proves that they...
Pagina 44 - Why didn't you shoot at it?" asked Billy, noting the outline of the professor's revolver under his coattail. "I had placed a specimen of antarctic star-moss in the barrel of my revolver for safe-keeping, and didn't wish to disturb it," explained the professor; "so I thought the best thing to do under the circumstances was to run. I never dreamed the creature would cling on.