What I have now at your generous hands is infinitely precious to me. It would kill me to part with it,—I could not and I hope you could not. And I will be patient, patient without end, to see what, if...
What most likely caused the second event was the rupture of a main steam line, carrying steam under extreme pressure. This was Turner’s theory from the beginning.
Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history.
William Stead recognized the power of the fair immediately. The vision of the White City and its profound contrast to the Black City drove him to write If Christ Came to Chicago, a book often credited...
With the onset of winter Burnham ordered all hydrants packed in horse manure to prevent freezing. On the coldest days the manure steamed, as if the hydrants themselves were on fire.
With the physique of a bank safe, he was the embodiment of quiet strength.
Yet by tracing the migration of guns, one comes readily and vividly to understand where the nation’s current patchwork of gun controls have gone astray, and how easily they could be fixed to the incre...
A new phrase was making the rounds in Berlin, to be deployed upon encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street, ideally with a sardonic lift of one eyebrow: Lebst du noch? Which meant, Are you...
Camp: If they should at any time attempt, even in a small way, to move from their criticism to a new act of perjury, they can be sure that what confronts them today is not the cowardly and corrupt bou...
Chronic anger
Paper, at least, it reported to Adm. Henry Francis Oliver, the Admiralty’s chief of staff, a man so tight-lipped and reticent he could seem almost mute, and this—given the British navy’s predilection...
The most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.
We are always personally under an agitating pressure and cloud of anxiety. And Olmsted himself had grown increasingly susceptible to illness. He was sixty-eight years old and partly lame from a decade...
. . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. A surprise, he said, and urged her to pul...
A British journalist, Sydney Brooks, writing in the North American Review, gauged America to be just as isolationist as ever. And why not, he asked? The United States is remote, unconquerable, huge, w...
A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.
A common story had begun to circulate: One man telephones another and in the course of their conversation happens to ask, How is Uncle Adolf? Soon afterward the secret police appear at his door and in...
After noting that Germany’s submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; and if some of it gets into tro...
All the despair, terror and anguish of hundreds of souls passing into eternity composed that awful cry.
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