Snow fell. Carolers moved among the mansions of Prairie Avenue, pausing now and then to enter the fine houses for hot mulled cider and cocoa. The air was scented with woodsmoke and roasting duck. In G...
So many men … think absolute isolation a coming paradise.
Strange things began to happen that made Holmes’s claims about being the devil seem almost plausible. Detective Geyer became seriously ill. The warden of Moyamensing prison committed suicide. The jury...
The Lusitania remained a passenger liner, but with the hull of a battleship.
The bells on the streetcars ring, buses clatter by honking their horns, stuffed full with people and more people; taxis and fancy private automobiles hum over the glassy asphalt, he wrote. The fragran...
The bureau had long banned the use of the word tornado because it induced panic, and panic brought criticism, something the bureau could ill afford.
The city’s legions of working men disagreed. They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, Our Carter, even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent Fr...
The list of appetizers included stuffed eagles’ eggs.
The most terrifying part of battle was the exit from a trench—standing up and climbing out, knowing that the opposing force would at that moment unleash a fusillade that would continue until the offen...
The next year, in March 1888, her parents sent her to Philadelphia, to be examined and cared for by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, a physician famous for treating patients, mainly women, suffering from neur...
The story, too, tends to illustrate the end of the century.
There is no place suitable to my kind of mentality,
There were so many items on the menu that Cunard felt obliged to print a separate sheet with suggested combinations, lest one starve from befuddlement.
They found a city steaming with heat—91 degrees on Tuesday, April 27, with four days yet to go until Straw Hat Day, Saturday, May 1, when a man could at last break out his summer hats. Men followed th...
They saw even more ungodly things—the first zipper; the first-ever all-electric kitchen, which included an automatic dishwasher; and a box purporting to contain everything a cook would need to make pa...
This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself.
U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.
Upon learning that Hall was the man who had invented the typewriter she used so often, the girl put her arms around his neck and gave him a huge hug and kiss. Forever afterward, whenever Hall told thi...
What Edith did not yet appreciate was that Wilson was now a man in love, and as White House usher Ike Hoover observed, Wilson was no mean man in love-making when once the germ has found its resting pl...
Where in May 1915 the navy had only thirty U-boats, by 1917 it had more than one hundred, many larger and more powerful than Schwieger’s U-20 and carrying more torpedoes.
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