Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired staffer. "He doesn't say so, but he'd have to be superhuman not to feel this way." In the third week of his 22,000-mile journey, Dwight Eisenhower indeed was having a wonderful time. In Iran, in Greece and in Tunisia, where monuments of great ancient civilizations still stand, the glowing pageant of people seemed to rush by like pages riffled in a history book...
...character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph, Valley Hall is a world, and the best of all possible...
...grant you wisdom, Mr. Davis." Later, he regrets not having "poured out his soul," but he wisely suppresses the impulse again when, in his presence. Abraham Lincoln worries about the Constitution and tells two stories of doubtful humor. Most of the speeches and conversations of the great sound authentic; only the hero, Montague-Sinclair, is unreal. He is, nevertheless, an engaging figure to the connoisseur of the absurd in fiction-a kind of Candide without Voltaire...
JOHN PAUL JONES, by Samuel Eliot Morison. Harvard's Professor Emeritus Morison is not at his best when his hero (who at one time served Catherine the Great as Rear Admiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones) is ashore, but in describing the fighting at sea, Morison has no superior...
ELIZABETH THE GREAT, by Elizabeth Jenkins. A string of brilliant miniatures of the Queen who said of herself: "I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king...