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...great Boston preacher like Dr. William Channing or Edward Everett Hale. He made the boy read Plato and Josephus (in translation) at the age of eight, and taught him Latin at nine. When parishioners called, Father Alger would ask, "What are you going to be, Horatio?" Horatio Jr. would stutter: "I shall be a t-teacher of the ways of God, a p-preach-er of His commandments, a wiberal thinker, a woyal citizen." Schoolmates called him "Holy Horatio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Horatio | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Twilight Rumors. From the cavernous stage of Hitler's Europe, from behind the censor's hastily lowered asbestos curtain, came a confused welter of noises: hoarse shouts, the sound of running footsteps, the sudden stutter of machine guns. It was like the opening scene of a tragic and savage Twilight of the Gods. Rumor cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crack of Doom | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...friends noticed soon afterward that he had lost his stutter, surmised that the facial wound had cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF SICILY: A Matter of Days | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

They soon found him. In the rainy darkness isolated machine guns began to stutter. Six or eight miles away in the inland Mubo area, Australian jungle fighters had begun to deploy their patrols toward the shore. Two days later they joined forces with the Americans at Nassau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Attack, Attack, Attack | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Landing Party. On the loch below an ancient clansman's castle (which is headquarters), Rangers armed to the teeth paddled toward shore in longboats. From the crags a rifle spat and a pair of Bren guns began a frenetic stutter. Water spurted up alongside the boats. A bullet shattered a paddle blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Rangers in Scotland | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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