Word: cobbett
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Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
...Commander in the U. S. Navy, Samuel Eliot Morison '08, on leave from his post as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard, is doing for World War II what was done for World War I by Sir Julian Cobbett, whose work is a classic on the subject of sea warfare...
Unorthodox Orthodoxy. No man was more unorthodox than Chesterton-in his appearance and view of orthodoxy. Author of some 100 novels, stories, plays, volumes of poems, biographies (studies of William Cobbett, Charles Dickens, Chaucer), he was one of modern Britain's keenest literary minds and a master of paradox. A passionate journalist (for 40 years Chesterton wrote for a dozen papers), he was the creator of one of literature's famed sleuths (Father Brown) and the most prominent Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once...