Word: scott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that 300,000 men under good generals might put down the rebellion in three years...
HARVARD '38 TUFTS '38 Larcom, g. g., O'Connor Scott, p. p., Zimman Magurn, cp. cp., Harris McKellar, 1d. 1d., Connors Cobb, 2d. 2d., Burrage Campion, c. c. Rossman J. Hunsaker, 2a. 2a., Coolidge P. Hunsaker, 1a. 1a., Greenslade Cleveland, ih. ih., Vounakes Sutro, oh. oh., Schapiro...
...chief country during the Romantic movement, England produced (always excepting Rousseau) the most tearful sentimentalists like Sterne, who, had Russian imitators, and the most energetic poseurs like Byron, traces of whose stock-in-trade are discoverable in Lermontov and in the great Puslakin. Through the Waverly Novels, Scott gave an impetus to Russian historical fiction which can hardly be exaggerated. "After Byron," says Dr. Simmons, "no figure in English literature caught the popular imagination or won the devotion of Russian writers to the same extent, influences continued to be sure, but they were of a superficial and passing nature. Russia...
TAPS AT REVEILLE-F. Scott Fitzgerald -Scribner...
Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's title implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary double-lifer, he has concentrated his serious ambition on his few novels, written his many magazine stories simply to make money. Though critics sniff at them, say they sound like thorns crackling under a pot, readers forgive him the pot for the sake of the crackling. Of this collection of 18 stories, all are reprinted from magazines...