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The Chancellor’s assurances were so satisfying and so unexpected that I think they are on the whole too good to be true, Messersmith wrote. We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anyth...
No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.
No sir, Dunwoody snapped. It cannot be; no cyclone ever can move from Florida to Galveston.
Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine’s blood.
Later, a passenger reported seeing a woman giving birth in the water. The idea that this might have been his mother would haunt the boy for the rest of his life.
Jane Addams, the urban reformer who founded Chicago’s Hull House, wrote, Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permit...
It is, she wrote, an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts.
I didn’t believe all her stories, Martha wrote later. I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical. When Martha left her hotel she witnessed no violence, saw no one cowering in fear, felt no op...
He glanced back. Two images became impressed in his memory. One was of a collapsible lifeboat slipping from the ship, still sheathed in its protective cover; the other, of Captain Turner in full dress...
He died in his bed at his farm on February 9, 1940, at 3:10 p.m., with Martha and Bill Jr. at his side, his life work—his Old South—anything but finished.
Both camps maneuvered to win the endorsement of Kaiser Wilhelm, who, as the nation’s supreme military leader, had the final say. He authorized U-boat commanders to sink any ship, regardless of flag or...
Chronic anger
Whether out of professional pique or some instinct of fear, the ship’s mascot—a cat named Dowie, after Captain Turner’s predecessor—fled the ship that night, for points unknown.
This prolonging of a man’s life doesn’t interest me when he’s done his work and has done it pretty well.
The city had laid miles and miles of streets and sewers through regions where perhaps one solitary house stood out alone,
The United States is remote, unconquerable, huge, without hostile neighbors or any neighbors at all of anything like her own strength, and lives exempt in an almost unvexed tranquility from the conten...
The Death of Boris,’ by Mussorgsky?
Stand with your back to the wind, he said, and the barometer will be lower on your left than on your right.