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Connecticut-born and bred, Noah Webster was the son of a sturdy farmer, a veteran of the French & Indian Wars, who mortgaged his farm in order to send his promising son to college at Yale. The Revolution did not interrupt Noah's education: what soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent...
...Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual curiosity. Robert Fitzgerald can write vividly of boys playing marbles in a yard, speculating without passion or anger on their fates-one becoming a dealer in jewels and watches, another grown ruddy from "sunning in the South." He can interrupt these reflections with strange asides that suggest the unpredictable quality of his imagination: How earth pulls us and pulls the moon Our bones know casually...
When Kelly, Varsity football captain arises promptly at eight to introduce Dean Hanford tonight, however, there will be no Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club to interrupt...
...hear this story we must interrupt a lecture in American literature. The professor was waxing enthusiastic...
Persians developed the art of training pigeons and the Greeks used pigeons to carry the names of Olympic winners to various cities. The French pigeon post during the Siege of Paris in 1871 was so successful that the Germans employed hawks and falcons to interrupt the service. Best means of frightening away birds of prey is to provide pigeons with bells and whistles...