Word: howes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With skating ability as their main asset, the Hoddermen have much to learn about stick-handling. Lacking confidence and weak at passing, they are easily stopped. No one can be sure, however, how they will react to their first active service this evening.
In a preliminary to the varsity game, the Freshman teams of the two schools will meet at 7:30 o'clock. The Yardlings are as yet completely untried, and not even Skip Stahley, their coach, knows how strong they will turn out.
Coffin writes in prose, leaving his natural poetic element to tell of a Maine man and his wife who "flourished in a time when being a Maine coast citizen meant being a citizen of the world." He relates how the couple spent the years of their wedded life continuously on...
Above all other men, Senator Sumner of Massachusetts was a scourge and a goad to the South, an exasperation to practical statesmen like Stephen A. Douglas. Handsome, imposing, humorless and incorruptible, Sumner stood in the Senate for years denouncing slaveholders as keepers of a nameless abomination; yet he had nothing...
William Henry Seward, Lincoln's cigar-chewing Secretary of State, was capable of trying to run the President and also capable of realizing he couldn't. Seward had tried to stave off war. "Night and day he had conferred and negotiated, become weary and rusty, vulgar and profane...