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...snow, wind, and rain of Virginia and the doctors at Mount Vernon, in their cruel wisdom, had done well by George Washington." With this sentence Mr. Fay closes his book on the first President of the United States. It is his belief that, had Washington lived another year, he would have found himself in a very tragic political conflict with Jefferson, and he would have inevitably seen those principles inculcated in him by birth and by breeding swept boldly aside to make way for certain more popular democratic doctrines. George Washington was a landed Virginia baron whose life was guided...
...very scholarly, very sympathetic biography, Mr. Fay has developed his thesis. He has made Washington the symbol of a social class endowed with that integrity and intelligence which made him the symbol of a nation. But in his analysis the author has never lost sight of the fact that his subject was a man and not a political theory. There are long passages faithfully describing his boyhood which offer valuable insight into the character of the man. In a fine chapter on Washington as a Virginia baron Mr. Fay accomplishes the dual purpose of constructing a Washington of flesh...
...Economic Conditions Under the Great Elector." Professor Fay, Harvard...
...blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with his confreres to steal the funds which the embezzling financier has secreted on the premises. When he has done so, he gives most of the money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems to have gotten into the picture when no one was looking. The Unholy Garden has the defect of implausibility but it is not wholly stupid. Good shot: Colman reproving an Algerian servitor who licks his chops when announcing that a lady...
...Reconstruction in Germany after the Thirty Years War". Professor Fay, Harvard...