Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poem really pulls one on. Stephen Benet has charmingly combined a uniquely modern and sincere patriotism with an equally rare sense of proportion. Yet throughout the course of events which he vividly depicts--here in minute detail--there is sweeping epic style--and here again with a touch of human sympathy--one finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both these sections of our country have acclaimed the book as a classic. A striking feature is the manner in which Benet handles such a wide field. One might...
...since the publication of "Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children" has there been anything so human, so intimate, so revealing of the real Roosevelt. This record of childish pranks, of boyhood camping and hunting trips, of progress in athletics and studies while a student at Harvard, form the self-told story of a great personality, from nursery days to early manhood...
...river in Oklahoma territory at the age of ten. He made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life in those lusty days is a commendable one, and by carrying...
...enlightened and progressive conception of feminine rights has worn away every rule of law or custom which placed the wife in a different or less favorable position as a human being than her husband...
Lucky, socalled, a greasy and peculiar police-bitch, swam from Albany to Manhattan down the Hudson River in 44 hr., 52 min. Such human beings as have also swum from Albany to New York, though enraged to discover that the bitch had done it in five hours less than the best of them, were comforted to discover that she swam only two hours at a stretch, while their intervals of paddling had been longer...