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...characteristics, Bliss Perry is best known for his literary commentaries and his skill as an angler. Even during the ten years that he was breathing the breath of life into the Atlantic Monthly, flavoring it with humor, human interest and gentle irony, he did not forego fishing or writing about it. Every complete angler is familiar with his quixotic essay "Fishing With A Worm," a stirring defense of the practice...
...characteristics. Bliss Pernis best known for his literary commentaries and his skill as an angler. Even during the ten years that he was breathing the breath of life into the Atlantic Monthly, flavoring it with humor, human interest and gentle irony, he did not forego fishing or writing about it. Every complete angler is familiar with his quixotic essay "Fishing With A Worm," a stirring defense of the practice...
...Negroid puppet-master capering on a stage, surrounded by his puppets who are seen to be Cabinet Members Chase, Cameron and Welles and Generals Fremont, Scott and McLellan. When, as President-elect in 1861, Lincoln journeyed to Washington, receiving great acclaim in the northern cities, he was warned to forego a visit to Democratic Baltimore. Friends commissioned Allan Pinkerton, spy (later founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency), to investigate. His report influenced Lincoln to make no public appearance, to entrain quietly for Washington. Southern papers quickly screamed that he was a coward. In Baltimore, the slighted city, citizens incensed...
...William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable scene was enacted by one Herman Schulenberg, 53, Milwaukee mechanic. Four years ago his cancerous larynx was removed. Last week Joseph Clark Beck, his Chicago surgeon, led him before the Fellows. First the man rasped...
...composed of eight members selected by the President and confirmed by the Senate, plus the Secretary of Agriculture ex officio. It will have a working capital of $500,000,000 supplied from the U. S. Treasury. With this cash to lend, it will try to induce farmers to forego some of their normal independence, to join co-operative marketing associations. These associations, with money borrowed from the board, will attempt to moye food from farm to market more cheaply, with less spoilage and waste, than is now accomplished by scattered and individual private effort...