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...published is a book called The Psychology of Happiness by Professor Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia University.* Therein it is stated that Woodrow Wilson had, from childhood, "a constitutional infirmity which he struggled to hide and did hide with such cunning the world never suspected it." This was "the first-and perhaps most poisonous-virus of his unhappiness...
Every time that you disclose your mind to me you increase my admiration and affection for you. I am glad to promise you that with regard to my personal correspondence and similar papers, I shall regard you as my preferred creditor, and shall expect to afford you the first-and if necessary exclusive-access to those papers...
Literature: Amid the serene literary chorus of his day, Howells' steady and somewhat dismal drone occasioned much neck-craning in the audience. His was the first-and persists the truest-note of realism that the U. S. has heard. "Dullness," he said, "is dear to me." Beside realism as we have it today, that of Howells pales, of course, is called drabness; but at the time, his refusal to succumb to the chivalrous romanticism his contemporaries had inherited from England made him, roughly, the Sinclair Lewis...