Word: backwoodsman
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Hoosier birth (1867) gave Graham Phillips a natural bent toward politics and writing. College friendship with an ambitious young backwoodsman named Albert J. Beveridge settled him down, helped him choose the goal which he pursued with solemn fixity to his death. The years of reporting and editorial writing under the late great Editors Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were a time of learning weapons, storing mental ammunition. As a friend afterward wrote, "He believed that more people would read intelligently and heed the warnings and lessons which he felt inspired to offer through the medium of novels, than they...
...Baton Rouge, La., was brought John Schenayder, 82, backwoodsman, charged with making whiskey. Speaking only French, John Schenayder pleaded guilty through an interpreter, said that he had been making whiskey 50 years, had never heard of the Prohibition law, did noi know that the Civil War was over...
...suddenly delivered a sort of dying kick with a viciousness of which few people on this side of the Atlantic would have supposed him capable. His Armistice Day speech was in effect a denunciation of Europe and all its works from the standpoint of a 100% New England backwoodsman...
...Hoover's effort to obtain a political delegation from the Vice President's Blue Heaven let us be as indifferent as the backwoodsman who, when urged to run to his cabin where a panther was fighting his mother-in-law, retorted, 'Why should I care what happens to a panther?' [Laughter...
Engaged. James A. (Bud) Stillman Jr., 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stillman; to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, daughter of a Scotch-Canadian backwoodsman. The bridegroom is the son of Banker James A. Stillman, whose marital complications have long figured in the headlines of the daily news. He met his fiancèe seven years ago at the Stillman camp in Canada, when she was doing odd jobs around the Stillman house; was attracted by her personality, innocence, beauty, cooking. In Canada said Mother Fifi Stillman warmly, while Miss Wilson sat silent, composed: "I am delighted with...