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...socks and boots. For this exploit he was made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants but ended in defeat and capture for Morgan and most of his men. Imprisoned in the Columbus Penitentiary, Morgan and six of his officers...
...seen one president advocating a 'Now Nationalism' another president advocating a 'New Freedom,' a well known novelist talking about a 'New Patriotism'--phrases that illustrate just this vague fumbling. With us the recognized way of pinning down something we feel to be in the air is to adopt some cast-off phrase and put a 'New' before it. A pleasant thrill runs over the country, something which is felt to be new having been recognized...
Advertised by Max Keezer: I am paying 50 percent higher cash prices than any other dealer for your cast-off clothing, Old Gold, Watched, Chains, Diamonds, Bric-a-Brac, Furniture, Carpets, etc. Suits $3.00 to $20.00; overcoats $5.00 of $20.00; trousers...
...medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside are only senseless shadows. Peire Vidal, famed troubadour who actually lived until Author Cronyn began to put him down on paper, was the cast-off son of a furrier in Toulouse. Awkward and ugly, but with the gift of song, he soon made a name for himself. From court to castle he went his amorous and lyric way, wooing his hostesses with varying success. Once, on his way to serenade a lady, and clad...
...seems to me about time the buildings across the Charles were sold at auction to the Alexander Hamilton Institute, or, better still, made into what they are already fast becoming--a home for cast-off Brain Trustees. Gilbert Satterthwaite...