Word: manifestants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot see how Mr. Prebles can say what he did say about Her Son's Wife, Jesus: A Myth? and A Manifest Destiny. I am sure everyone will agree that it was his, and not the fault of THE CREAM. It is a novel idea and I sincerely hope it continues...
...think any decent person will applaud your recommending such an utterly baseless book as "Jesus: A Myth"? I should turn that title into an exclamation about the book itself! I've read "Her Son's Wife" and "A Manifest Destiny" too, and honest, I simply can't see how your minds work to think these are "good books." Just out of curiosity I think I'll try a couple of others, shutting my eyes to choose. I predict not one in three is any good, but it so happens I now have time to waste...
...MANIFEST DESTINY-Arthur D. Howden Smith-Brentano's ($2.50). Here are history, fiction, and destiny jumbled on a scale which D. W. Griffith would call a "spectacle." One Peter Ormerod, fresh from Harvard, a successful Manhattan lawyer, goes to California in 1855 in behalf of his client, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now Peter is often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes...
...MANIFEST DESTINY-Arthur D. Howden Smith-Brentano's ($2.50). General Walker, filibuster, versus Commodore Vanderbilt, pirate...
...cruelly misleading in his intimation that we are undermining the independence of France, and so deliberately unjust where he refers to waiting for America to enter the War, and where he criticizes the United States for making a separate treaty of peace with Germany, and yet so pathetic in manifest love of his country, that I prefer not to comment at length...