Word: quoters
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...picks up her Bible-quoting habit and throws verses at his siblings. A little girl combs her mother's hairpiece like a slave, then cultivates her own pigtail. These same little saints, when Charlie becomes their authority, take up cigarettes and twist in the halls. The Bible-quoter turns purveyor of whorish wisdom: "Men have their vices...
Branch & Leo. The shepherd of St. Louis' wild flock was Branch Rickey the Bible quoter, who dutifully shunned the ball park on Sunday, the day the turnstiles clicked most merrily. Rickey considered himself a molder of character, and Leo became his pet reclamation project...
...have brought these two most rational persons, under no illusion about each other or their mutual position and commitments, to think of such an irrational marriage." The elder Santayana, one of twelve children, with the Spanish "dignity in humility," poor, meager, deaf, a painter, a law student, a quoter of Quintilian, solid and grey as the rocky heath of Avila where he used to walk with his young son George, consented when his wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness of vision, how much was modesty, how much...
...Irish face strode into the editorial offices of the New York Sun and asked for a job. The Sun's executives snapped the applicant up. He was mnemonic John Kieran, for 16 years sports columnist for the New York Times, for four and a half years a Shakespeare quoter, birdlore expert, Latin scholar, jingle singer and general know-it-all of Information, Please...
...more roads, introduced more permanent operating innovations, made a higher salary ($100,000) than any surviving railroader. His last spectacular gesture came in 1933, when he bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat of mighty New York Central. Widely read, a quoter of Spengler and Ortega y Gasset. he wrote an authoritative book on railroads, another on anthracite. His motto: "Be audacious." His battlecry: "Management is notoriously underpaid...