Word: ethane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Damned Old Rats!" Sirs: I notice, in your July 7 issue, that a Toledo gentleman takes exception to what you quoted Ethan Allen as having said when he demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga, by quoting Professor Sumner as an authority for what Ethan Allen probably said...
Under "HEROES, Wanted: Ethan Allen." TIME, in its issue of June 23, makes the judicious grieve...
Sumner of Yale (folkways, etc.) and his dictum that what Ethan Allen probably said to Capt. Delaplace at Ticonderoga was "Surrender, you blank-blank blank-of-a-blank." Simmer's interest was debunking history, de flating legends of false heroics...
...There can be no doubt that one or more portraits of Ethan were made. He was an astute publicity man and particularly fond of making an impression, wear ing bright uniforms, saying and doing dashing things. He lived in the age of the journeyman painter who rode from door to door with canvases on which the body was already painted so that only the head needed to be added. There must have been a picture of Ethan. It is probably still in existence, hidden away in some obscure attic or barn...
...researches disclose, there is no authentic, portrait in existence and no exact description of his appearance. The statues in the national capital and in the Vermont State House were posed by Ethan's nephew...