Word: coverse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Happily, all the strenuous Americans herein arbitrarily assembled are dead. Mr. Dibble has nothing to fear in the way of retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey...
In point of view of history Professor Ross covers in some detail the period of the Russo-German negotiations during the winter of 1917-18 that culminated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 1918, and he describes briefly the reorganization of Russia under the Soviet regime. He then...
In the ordinary bookcase, the in habitants thereof may be subjected to inconceivable indignities. Imagine the reaction of a prim and high-minded Victorian romance forced to rub Covers with Jurgen. What would be the feelings of Speare and Fitz gerald, twin apostles of gin and kisses, separated by the...
This volume--widely advertised both outside and inside the covers as Coolidge's first biography--aspires to give a picture of the President as the "personal friend that he is" and to drive at "quality not quantity". Mr. Washburn, the biographer, has succeeded in one thing. He has written the...
Charles William Eliot's slight volume, Harvard Memories, has issued from the Cambridge presses in crimson covers. It is a family book in which the venerable chief-emeritus of Harvard talks to great-grandsons concerning the days-before-football. In those days "students had no hot water. But all...