Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good biographical material, but seldom has he been exhibited in so dramatic, episodic and psychological a book as Mr. Ludwig's. Europeans were agreeably amazed in 1925 (when the book first appeared) that a German had written so sympathetically of Napoleon. Now, in the able translation of Eden and Cedar Paul, it is well on its way to be the outstanding biography...
...codes are dying and time trembles for a birth. Thus, the cedar forests remain but in places they are being leveled to pay gambling debts. Barons and landlords still shoot capercailzies at dawn and snipe at sunset, or shoot one another in grave "affairs of honor." Yet here is a man, a little crazed perhaps, who finds dueling a pitiable farce and who would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them. In the white castles and proud manors, dames still drill their men-servants, still preserve an ancient ritual for meals and marriage, dancing...
...built the first cedar shell in America," continued Bill modestly. "It was the boat in which Harvard rowed against Yale in the first regatta between the two Universities. That was about 40 years back, in a little shop near the old Harvard Boathouse before I worked for the College. Those were the days of great races, when the crews used to pose for their pictures with a bunch of daisies in the coxwain's hands...
...West, had been a Quartermaster Captain in the Civil War, a Cavalry Colonel, had stormed Missionary Ridge, had fought with Jeb Stuart in the battle in which the latter was killed, had beaten General Early in the Shenandoah Valley, had had his famous 20 miles to Cedar Creek to turn defeat to victory, had been at Appomattox Court House, had commanded in the Southwest after the war, had fought the Indians, had gone to Germany and observed the war of 1870, before in 1874 he took to wife a charming little brunette, just out of school, the daughter, sister, wife...
...Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill?well, I've spoken before all of 'em and I wouldn't consider their opinion on a matter of morals. ... Go from the pineries of Michigan to the cedar keys of Florida and from rocky Maine to San Francisco, and you'll find that wherever the Sabbath is loosest and freest the prisons are fullest. I know...