Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neat tuxedo, his dead-white face immobile as plaster in the strong light, his oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf made run after run. Once he annoyed Rudolph who, having just missed his 24th shot, complained that Greenleaf had disturbed him by walking around. The referee said he had not noticed it. Greenleaf ran 41 in the first half of the 11th inning, Rudolph ran seven and missed. At the end of the match Greenleaf had his 125 points and the championship to Rudolph...
Recently Sculptor Mestrovio said to a friend who was discussing U. S. art with...
...career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot wrote a verse about him: Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis-"He has snatched from heaven the thunderbolt and the scepter from tyrants." Ladies kissed him. Said he: "Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their Necks kissed. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks it is not the Mode here...
Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
...officially complimented by the Maryland Legislature, presented with 160 acres in Iowa. The Civil War found him in command of Washington Navy Yard. He resigned, later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia) he sallied out against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must...