Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world, Einstein considered relatively the first, Weizmann, inventor of TNT and head of the Zionist movement, second...
...prophet Isaiah in Chapter VI, verses 5, 7, 8, of the book of Isaiah, reports: Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here I am, send...
...white rice. He, Sheik Nassib Makaram, was famed from Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long...
...summer long," the first chapter proceeds, "Bronson Alcott paced through Concord's placid loveliness, being Bronson Alcott still, still ready to let flow the wondrous volume of his stored inanity on any victim. . . . Louisa May Alcott was famous. Her bones ached; her voice had become hoarse and coarse. . . . She must nurse her mother and pay Pa's debts. . . . Alcott went beaming and rosy in the very best broadcloth and linen to lecture on Duty, Idealism and Emerson. . . . Duty's child was hard at work, writing 'moral pap for the young' in her own phrase...
...chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...