Word: allan
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Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...
From that time on, in his pilgrimage to discover the truth about North and South, Allan meets all the top people. There is "the notorious Levi Coffin of Cincinnati," founder of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves; Allan is armed with a hunting knife for killing abolitionists, but is charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into...
ALLEGHANY FIGHT is heading for showdown after compromise attempts failed. Chairman Allan P. Kirby has withdrawn offer to give Boston Financier Abraham Sonnabend a seat on Allegheny's board, will not extend a second otter to buy 200,000 shares of stock claimed by Sonnabend, and challenges him to a proxy fight. Sonnabend is mum on plans, has not yet filed statement of proxy intentions with...
...meet these powers, Marion will use a team which is notably strong in the foil division, but undermanned in the epee class. His personnel problems have even forced him to switch Allan Gardner, basically a foil man, to epee competition in order to help the team's only regular epee combatant, Jim Roberts...