Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fool. I wondered at times whether I was reading a review of Henry Ward Beecher or Elmer Gantry. You put them in the same class. "Uncouth. . . buffoon. . . pastor of a flock of golden sheep . . . women fainted when he shouted and roared. . . met charges with a stupid sarcasm." I say I have not read Hibben's book, but if you have reviewed it fairly it must be the most unsympathetic and prejudiced study of a man in the whole realm of biography...
...iniquity." I was a student in Union Theological Seminary in 1867-68. Quite a percent of the students were manly fellows who had been soldiers in the Civil War and they were rejoiced to hear Beecher and they noted in the great congregations a majority of men, yet you say Was "men there as a ever rule a did not manlier like thing him." than Beecher facing the English mobs and doing more for his country than any other individual by his speeches ? It can be said that some of the strongest and best men of our country, who made...
...thorough and appreciative reading of your splendid newsmagazine, I have until now, resisted the oft-occuring temptation to write you in commendation of your policy in the set-up of your periodical, but since reading Mr. John Palmer Gavit's letter in TIME. Oct. 3, I want to say "Amen" to all that he said, and to add that his letter is by far the best one on the subject that I have seen, and I am confident of having read all of them to date...
Upon what authority do you say that Mrs. Medill McCormick thought Mrs. Nicholas Longworth a "harurn scarum" and that Mrs. Longworth thought Mrs. McCormick a "prig...
...that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject for the time being, he would rise and say to Boswell: "Come, let us walk along Fleet Street...