Word: 1830s
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This is the first novel since Chad Hanna by one of America's better historical novelists, Walter D. Edmonds. In it he puts that immortal American, the Horatio Alger hero, into period pants. The period: the 1830s, in Manhattan...
...huge tides of flu have washed the world. Contrary to popular opinion, the epidemics have not always run in cycles of 20 years. In modern times the span between them seems to be around three decades. A wave of flu inundated Europe and the U. S. during the 1830s; others followed in 1847, 1889. Greatest epidemic in history was the scourge of 1918-19, which killed more than 20,000,000 people all over the world, more than half a million in the U. S. alone. Last year Ihe Journal of the American Medical Association predicted a great epidemic...
Chicago's first known white settler, a French trader named Pierre Moreau, was a bootlegger as far back as 1675. Before Indians and bears had been driven from the log village in the 1830s, gamblers, harlots, pimps had arrived. Thieves preyed even on the dead: private detectives guarded Chicago's early graveyards. Between Bull Run and the great fire of 1871 roared the first of Chicago's incredible booms, in which everything but the police force expanded. Result was Chicago's reputation in the Civil War decade as "the wickedest city...
...these objectors get to see Tom Brown's School Days, they will be rudely surprised. Its view of British public-school life in the 1830s offends only on the side of realism. Author Hughes recognized Headmaster Arnold as the man who made over Rugby. The Towne version shows Dr. Arnold as no Mr. Chips but a hard-hitting, God-fearing birchman. He takes over the school to find it riddled with bullies and liars, throws out so many students that the only trustee who supports him is equally God-fearing Squire Brown (Ernest Cossart). Dr. Arnold...
This quality dour Alphonso Taft brought down from the dour uplands of Vermont in the 1830s. Grandfather Taft, Yale '33, looking for a quiet, middle-class town in which to practice law (his goal: yearly income of $3,000 to $5,000), was much taken with Cincinnati. There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride. Fanny Phelps died after bearing him five children (three died in childhood) ; and after due consideration, Grandfather Taft chose happy, loving Louise Torrey, who bore him four sons and a daughter. Second of these sons was William Howard Taft, Yale...