Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same bed with his children, even though he is continually showering the air with germs when he coughs." The miners, who are 90% native-born, live in the most abysmal ignorance of the nature of their disease. One tried to check his silicosis by giving up chewing tobacco. Another said: "It's the likker that gits 'em down. When that alkeehol gits down into the lungs along with the dust that's what eats...
Quick to cry "Watch!" were the preferred stockholders. Said a Wall Street brokerage house: "Preferred stockholders get nothing in return for their sacrifices; common stockholders make no sacrifices in return for their benefits." President G. W. Cox of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. did what no less potent stockholder could afford. He sent out far & wide among preferred stockholders, lined up opposition votes as far afield as the Midwest. Many another big insurance company, holder of Curtis preferred, girded...
...Circus is funny, should have been funnier. But cinemarxists, as they rest up from more laughs than the Marx Brothers have given them in many a long picture, may agree that the Marxes are still U. S. comedy trio No. 1, even if, as Namesake Karl Marx said of John Stuart Mill, their "eminence is due to the flatness of the surrounding country...
...face wearing a beard for the first time (no one ever heard him seriously explain why), Lincoln arrived in Washington "like a thief in the night," with one companion, his friends having sent him on ahead to escape a mob in Baltimore. At Columbus on the way he had said in a curious, trance-like speech: "Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country...
Carl Sandburg's method with Lincoln is to light up in every way possible the men and the problems he faced from week to week, to relate with exactness what he did and said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay & Hay, Lamon, Herndon and the other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week...