Word: fuesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claude Moore Fuess, professor of English on the Elizabeth Milbank Anderson Foundation at Phillips Academy, Andover . . . Litt.D...
DANIEL WEBSTER-Claude M. Fuess- Little, Brown ($10).† If a decent interval has interposed between you and your schooldays, you probably think of Daniel Webster as a forbidding old party who invented U. S. oratory and was somehow not elected President. Perhaps you may have the idea he wrote a dictionary.**With the exception of the bit about the dictionary, your memory is accurate if not exhaustive. No debunker but a solid and serious historian, Fuess has filled two fat volumes with facts about his hero, facts which somehow, however, do not add up into a speaking likeness. Some...
...that Biographer Fuess has done, it is not as a statesman but as the orator of the Plymouth oration, the Bunker Hill address, the reply to Hayne, that the U. S. remembers Daniel Webster. Some Websterisms...
...perish I give my hand and my heart to this vote." "One country, one constitution, one destiny." "When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization." "There is nothing so powerful as truth -and often nothing so strange." The Author. Claude Moore Fuess. 45, is instructor in English at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He has also written: The Life of Caleb cushing, Rufus Choate: The Wizard...