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...Janet's story, occupying the first part of the book, is the more convincing and original, despite the facts that it is mixed up with long digressions about the suffraget movement and that it is told largely by means of excerpts from Janet's diary. An orphan, marrying at 19 and bearing an unwanted child to a man she did not love, Janet had the additional ill luck to be given an inquiring and unconventional mind in an environment where any unprecedented action created talk. She tormented the Vicar with her peace meetings and suffraget agitation as much...
...determined to have Fish in the Cabinet, sent his nomination to the Senate and said he had not received the New Yorker's refusal until too late. Fish then agreed to serve until after Congress adjourned. But as he plunged into work, at his little office in the Orphan Asylum on 14th Street, with as many as 400 callers a day, as the monumental confusions of Grant's Administration piled up, as scandal followed scandal and Grant's waywardness became more obvious, Secretary of State Fish soon be came one of the few uncompromised individuals...
...Puny Orphan Through His Own Winning Fight For Strength, Developed the World's Most Vital Editorial Technique...
Quickly learning that "nobody wanted to be bothered with the problems of others," Orphan Victor Heiser became a plumber's helper, later a carpenter, finally went to college on the salvage of his father's property, finished a four-year medi-cal course in three years. While still an interne, on a vacation in Washington, he took the examination for entrance into the Marine Hospital Service. With no preparation, he was one of three selected from 30 candidates, lost 20 Ib. during the two-week grilling, got by partially on the strength of his knowledge, partially...
...largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of Bass as a poor illiterate devil who was constantly falling into traps, robbing empty trains, making friends with spies. A tall Indiana boy, an orphan at 13, Bass was caught up in the social chaos that followed the Civil War, drifted South in Reconstruction days, worked in a Mississippi sawmill, before he became involved in crooked horse racing in Texas. In his early career the unpopularity of the State Government, supported by Federal troops, made the concealment of outlaws relatively...