Word: demostheneses
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And among all the Greek sponge-divers of Tarpon Springs last week, jovial young Demosthenes Kananis, who has been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the girls admired his broad shoulders and deep chest, remembering how, with a shout, he had slipped...
The editorial mentioned by the Senator's secretary praised Senator Stephens for talking little; quoted Mark Twain's steamboat which could not whistle and paddle at the same time; mentioned that Demosthenes, Patrick Henry and Ingersoll had no fame as fighters. The editorial concluded:
"Demosthenes," Professor Jackson, Sever 26.
"My reasons for not presenting myself to the Academy? They concern me alone. Look here. Here are my books, my Demosthenes, my garden. I have lived my life and I can confide to you what now is my one principle: one must never tell what one feels, knows or sees...
The Significance. After contemplating Walt Whitman, styled by him The Magnificent Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical...