Word: nathanael
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Infantry on Horseback. His eleven generals (not necessarily the best), from the Revolution's Nathanael Greene to Omar Bradley, include several that few readers ever heard of, e.g., Indian Fighter Richard Mentor Johnson and Grant's divisional commander, James Harrison Wilson. Each, says Pratt, operated on the simple basis that "nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a hand...
...American Revolution, General Nathanael Greene was disowned for serving in the Continental Army; in the Civil War, militant Quakers were ousted by the hundred. Now Friends are inclined to differ in silence...
Israel James Kapstein (Brown '26), undergraduate friend of pinwheel-minded S. J. Perelman and the late brilliant Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), went back to Brown in 1927, has taught English there ever since. Although he publishes his first novel at the dangerously retarded age of 37, it is a good...
...first novel out this week, What Makes Sammy| Run?,* Hollywood got a harpooning in just the way it argued could never be done. The evasive town had dodged shots by some expert marksmen-Novelists Aldous Huxley, John O'Hara, Nathanael West. But each seemed only to snag a loose end: the writer's world, the cowboys of Gower Gulch, the comedy of studio pomposity, the empty splendor of its rich...
...their new Confederation to become a great nation through the inventions of lawyers, not of tinkerers. So, despite his gift for whittling and smithing, Eli went to Yale College where he studied mathematics, then to Georgia to teach school and study law. He lived on the plantation of General Nathanael Greene's charming widow. She urged her whittling friend to devise a machine for cleaning cotton. Author Burlingame thinks that any Yankee tinkerer, set down amid the lazy, genteel Georgians and their seedy bolls, could have invented the cotton...