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...founded in 1781 by John, brother of Samuel Phillips, upon seeing the success of the latter's school at Andover, Mass. Andover's first headmaster was Eliphalet Pearson, known as "Elephant," sung as Great Eliphalet (I can see him now), Big name, big frame, big voice and beetling brow...
...students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork he almost broke down. Then the American Medical Association and other regular societies pitched on him, lambasted him, almost kept him from getting his license to practice in New York. Already, in 1902, Illinois...
Quietly through his pince-nez Mr. Rosenwald looked at his associates. They saw a gentle, dignified man, oval of face, high of brow, thoughtful of eye, pleasant of lips-lips which by a phrase had often given millions in thoughtful charity. They were to hear those lips make as fair a proposition as ever was laid before business...
...showered with glory . . . the credit for four-fifths of which, at least, belonged to Ludendorff. . . . In every heart, on every tongue, there was but one name, Hindenburg. . . . Every maid in the most distant forester's lodge knew that head, which the people call 'a majestic brow of thunder,' and the Kaiser, in his jealous rage, termed 'a sergeant...
...magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...