Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reassure me. The reviews of Rope and Faggot have dwelt almost without exception upon the judicial, impartial tone of the book. . . . Messrs. Lee and Haldane by their denunciation of me will help mightily in bringing the whole matter of lynch law to the attention of Americans who need to know the facts. Their brazen defense of murder, however, must not be attributed to all Southerners for some of the finest comments upon the book have come from Southern white newspapers and correspondents. . . . WALTER WHITE...
Explained Rupp: "It was not what you would term honorable but I figured people know human nature and that others would do the same thing if they wanted a certain thing badly enough...
...only gave us many a laugh with his classical Operation Book but he showed us the practical side of humor by making an operation pay its way. . . . But if mine's not humorous, why, don't blame me. It's hard to be funny when you know the check will only pass through your hands...
...that he considered "born believers" the world's happiest people. But it was not inevitable that a great nature's simplicity should have been made to seem dull. Author Bugnet can remember only five Foch anecdotes which seem to him worth telling. As for the Fochian philosophy-"Know what you will and do it. . . . One's value consists only in what one does"-it was, according to the Bugnet account, expressed only in countless bromides and repetitions...
More eclectic are the Caterpillar Club, whose members must have saved their lives at one time or another by parachute jumps, and the Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen about which those who know anything may tell nothing...