Word: farragut
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Neither is the U. S. Navy the heroic myth of the days of John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard, of Farragut in Mobile...
...seaplane been flying on schedule, it should have been about 200 miles off Hawaii when the message was sent. But no plane had passed the U. S. S. Farragut, stationed 420 miles off. The ships Aroostock and Tanager began to search...
...There is Farragut's angry shout: "Damn the torpedoes; go ahead...
...Avalanche" is to be the title of Ernes Poole's forthcoming novel. It is the love story of Llewollyn Dorr, a young physician, and Dorothen Farragut, a New York girl who resolves when she accepts him to build up a great success for him. In the tale of their year of married life Mr. Poole presents with power the clash of the man's ideals and the woman's ambitions for him--the avalanche of success that overwhelmed their love...
Augustus St. Gaudens had just completed his famous memorial statue of Farragut, now standing in Madison Square, New York, when his son, Homer, was born at Roxbury, Mass. This was in 1881, just when the great sculptor was achieving the recognition and success for which he had striven. The son was the idol of his father, posing as early as the age of 17 months for a bronze plaque. Here we find one of the earliest essays of the father in low relief, but it has all the characteristics of a masterpiece. The soft lines and curves of the baby...