Word: jefferson
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...each morning Father Randall, with his brilliantined beard and his hearty manner, took Louise to the stables to feed sugar to the horses while they were being curried. He brought her boxes of Page & Shaw chocolates, got front seats for the Admiral Dewey Parade, took her to see Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle. He told her that all their magnificent house needed was a moat and a drawbridge, and he was going to put them...
...german itself had not been very gay. Midway through the evening only 14 couples (their dress informal), several hound dogs circulated in the Jefferson-designed Rotunda...
...Slim Lauretta Jefferson, great-granddaughter of the late, beloved actor Joe Jefferson (Rip van Winkle), was ready in New York to hit the tanbark as the first ringmistress of Ringling Bros.' new "Continental Circus...
...Jefferson's statement in 1802 that the U.S. should "marry ourselves to the British fleet" was unnecessary, the U.S. and Britain were kin. It was when the U.S. and Britain permitted outsiders to come between them that catastrophe attended both...
...Republic, who "with zest destroyed the Bank of the United States in the times of Andrew Jackson." Such a man will "spring from the American soil," will be firm in the belief that "every man is as good as his neighbor, if not better"; will support "the ideas of Jefferson as against the more aristocratic and monarchical conceptions drawn from Europe"; and will have for his prophets not Marx, Engels and Lenin (to whom he will be respectful) but Thoreau and Emerson; and for his poet, Whitman...