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Robert E. Lee's cavalry general was James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, killed at Yellow Tavern in the last days of the war, but when somebody asked Lee at Appomattox who was the greatest soldier under his command, Lee answered, "A man I have never seen, sir. His name is Forrest...
...unisonal crescendoes which announced the murder announced also that Composer Berg had music worthy of the superb production. Wozzeck with his hands all blood staggering into a tavern where people were dancing to a tone-sick piano, Wozzeck going back for the knife, then wading into the water to wash him self, deeper, deeper until he drowned ? for these scenes and for an earlier one, in which the conscience-ridden Marie reads passages on adultery from the New Testa ment, Composer Berg has written music which critics unanimously pronounce the most powerful in any opera for years. Like...
...meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child dead, signed the pledge. And this, from 10,000 Temperance Anecdotes, justly entitled "A Curious Performance": "I once heard of a man who went to a tavern one evening and at midnight was discovered in a pigsty, cuddling a teakettle and singing at the top of his voice: They said I was a beauty once, Why don't they say it now? And when attempts were made to raise him up, he persisted in crying...
...rest, under this head, it has not been noticeable that the young men of Harvard have completely taken the veil. Tea time at the Ritz overlooking the Public Garden and the dinner hour at Frank Locke's Winter Place tavern still find the gilded youth of Cambridge in more or less complete possession, and the replacement of the stock of stemmed glassware at the Brookline Country Club is still a standard item on every hostess's dance bill. To be sure, the authorities can usually round up enough studious looking fellows to illustrate the divans in the house libraries when...
...days men fought on horseback. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart was one of the best of them. When the Civil War began he was 27, a regular U. S. cavalry officer, six years out of West Point. When a Yankee trooper's bullet brought him down at Yellow Tavern he was the 31-year-old Major-General commanding the cavalry and horse artillery of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Thomason, a soldier who likes his trade, a Southerner (from Texas) whose ancestors fought the Yankees, is a good man to write about Jeb Stuart...