Word: arnold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers surmised that had the President ridden the horse, Partisan Manly might have compared him to Benedict Arnold, fleeing from his outraged countrymen...
...Ford advances an empty head to explain his cold feet, and the only plausibility is contained in the fact that it took him until advanced years to discover that Benedict Arnold was not a modern writer and that the Revolution was not fought in 1812."*?Chicago Tribune...
...Like Arnold Bennett, she knows about the inarticulate necessities of unimportant people. Like the Russians whom Mr. Bennett so admires, she can articulate such matters with appropriate simplicity. "Her Own Room," in this volume of short turns, is simply the story of an old woman who lived in a flat with her son and his dependents. His homely daughter married. The old woman thought she might no longer be relegated to the davenport in the dining-room, but did not complain when this breathtaking likelihood collapsed...
...horrid in the Golden West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters are appealing - J. Arnold Ross, onetime muleteer, rough-hewn oil baron; his son, Bunny, honest by his lights, which shift from the Kliegs of Hollywood to the rising Soviet sun; their friends, enemies, mistresses and Bunny's "Wobbly" comrades for whom great sympathy is obtained by their physical dis tresses including suicide by drowning...
...error. TIME quoted Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois as follows: "Caesar had his Brutus, Jesus Christ had His Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small...