Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Lincoln was President and Walt was a rubber-stamp clerk in the Indian Office, Lincoln had already read Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and expressed pleasure in them, although chastening his praise with regret at veiled allusions of the lines. Later Whitman was pointed out to Lincoln, who said...
"That knife", and he pointed to the sheath in his stocking. "It's a Scotch ornament, or," and he scowled ominously, "for reporters who are not careful of the truth. I don't like reporters and I don't receive even the big ones, but I like to encourage young...
What will happen next, and whether the road will take another unexpected turn, no two political experts quite agree. Lowden's candidacy has been approved by important Republican organizations in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. In addition to this, the managers of the various Lowden-for-President clubs claim that their...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles...
Inasmuch as the Yale Student Council and the Yale undergraduates cannot strike a happy medium between Faculty supervision and no supervision, it might be pointed out that the former as practiced at Harvard is certainly the lesser of two evils. While it is generally admitted that the Faculty of any...