Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More of Lincoln's human understanding and more love for the common people than any man who has been a Presidential candidate since Lincoln's time."-Edwin J. Gross, oldtime friend and supporter of Wisconsin's late Robert Marion La Follette...
...19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor...
...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
Last week's principal discovery was a onetime Brigadier General of the English Army washing dishes in a Quebec hotel. While he scrubbed, Charles Henry Gough could ponder a seesaw career in which he had at various times been custodian of drumsticks, sabres, human lives, counters of lingerie, saxophones, dishrags...
...foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...