Word: diarist
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...begun to worry myself about the spending program," confessed Diarist Morgenthau. "I never objected to spending when the alternative would have been human suffering. . . . [But] I wanted all spending for relief and public works to be coordinated under a single head [and] I wanted a scheduled tapering...
...polished the translation himself. First of Moreau de St. Méry's many works to be put into English, it is not to be compared for literary quality to the contemporary notes of another French traveler, Chateaubriand. But it introduces to U.S. readers a methodical diarist who jotted down thousands of free anthropological notes, the like of which is not to be found elsewhere. "So far as I am aware," says Roberts, "no American or foreign author has ever written with such startling frankness about . . . American women during the last decade of the 18th Century...
Franklin Pierce Adams, diarist-columnist (F.P.A.) turned nostalgia expert (of Information Please), was nominated as Democratic candidate for Connecticut's Senate, from a rock-ribbed Republican district. His campaign strategy: mostly "to keep my trap shut...
...Black Death abated. But in 1661 it again began to sweep in from the Levant. In 1664 Diarist Samuel Pepys "heard little noise day or night but tolling of bells"; some 69,000 Londoners died. Once more the plague retreated, nation by nation, year by year, into Asia...
...poetry than there is in all romances put together." His problem: "Dare a soldier on the frontier (spiritually understood) take a wife, a soldier on duty at the extremest outpost, who is fighting day and night . . . against the robber bands of an innate melancholy. . . ?" In his soul-searching the diarist approaches the last stage in life's way, the religious...