There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
Expected, well suited to Germany’s guerrilla
My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.
I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word, Burnham sa...
It is less important where one lives than how one lives.
So every night, he said, I slept with a torpedo and a puppy.
Gin daisy, which
One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
Throughout America, who
Swamp
No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burla...
He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.
On August 3 a big Chicago bank, Lazarus Silverman, failed.
German U-boats were sinking ships at such a high rate that Admiralty officials secretly predicted Britain would be forced to capitulate by November 1, 1917. During the worst month, April, any ship lea...
It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.
The station.
Of mounting threat.
The wheel had consumed 28,416 pounds of bolts in its assembly;
Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.