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Back in the Texas of the 1890s, when the pen was not always mightier than the six-shooter, Editor William Cowper Brann grew so bitter about sham and injustice that he longed for "a language whose words are coals of juniper-wood, whose sentences are woven with a warp of aspics' fangs and woof of fire." The language came so naturally that in three years of publishing in Waco, then a town of 25,000, he built a phenomenal worldwide circulation of 120,000 for his one-man monthly Iconoclast. It also tore Waco into feuding factions, got Brann...
...Some 5 ft. small, his head ever topped, outdoors or in, with a knitted tam-o'-shanter, his gnomelike beard imitating Santa Claus, Maybeck was one of the first to design walls of glass, one of the first practitioners of "open planning" to allow for expansion, invented (in 1890s) the kitchen-dining-living-room combination...
...Many a braggart state has filed paternity claims for softball, but the most popular story blames a Minneapolis fireman named Louis Rober, who organized the game back in the 1890s to keep other firemen out of trouble...
...President does know what his program is, and believes that his budget is necessary to ensure the success of that program. In the booming 1950s, he told his press conference, the U.S. cannot limit itself "to the governmental processes that were applicable in the 1890s." Yet it is equally true that unless Ike shakes off spring's euphoria to fight resolutely for his budget, the modern Republican program he plans for the U.S. might be sacrificed for a political...
Whatever Ike is and whatever Ike may yet become derives from his boyhood in the Abilene, Kans, of the 1890s. Ike and his brothers were taught to be mindful of their parents and their Bibles ("there was nothing sad about their religion"). The youngsters played tag on the barn roof and dared one another to lean over the edge, fished lazily for catfish in Mud Creek and the Smoky Hill River, fanned imaginary six-shooters in the style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before...