Word: toms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anent Senator Platt: "Finally, facing Hanna, Herrick, and me, he (McKinley) said: 'There are some things in this world that come too high. If I cannot be President without promising to make Tom Platt Secretary of the Treasury, I will never be President...
Died.-Mrs. Marie Bates, 75, actress, at Glenbrook, Conn. She attained her reputation as Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin and as Mrs. Murphy in Chimmie Fadden. She played in many productions with David Warfield...
...posed that an immediate truce be made, that the Republicans dump all arms under pledge that they be handed over to whichever party wins the next election. He pointed out that the Republicans would thus be spared the humiliation of surrender, and yet peace would be fully restored. Tom Barry, irregular leader, was friendly to the proposal. A motion in favor of its adoption was introduced into the Dail Eireann. But Kevin O'Higgins, Free State Minister of Home Affairs, rejected the Archbishop's plan. " There can be no truce on the basis of the proposals...
...lived in the South to call "Uncle Tom's Cabin" literature of the South is an insult. In the first place the book isn't literature and the next place it isn't of the South. To call an I. W. W.'s interpretation of American life literature of America is rather more than a misnomen. A careful study of the circumstances which surrounded the issue of the book shows that its sole purpose was to stir up race and class hatred just the same as some organizations do today...
Honor where honor is due--and no one will deny it to these loyal nurses. The literature of the South, from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" down, is full of reverence for their services. Famous nurses are plentiful in literary annals: Stevenson's "Cummic" has been immortalized; Lytton Strachey credits an odd individual, Mrs. Salome Leaker, with a vigorous part in his up-bringing; Barrle was intimately aware of the merits of nurse-maids--but even his affectionate "Nana" could hardly find place beside the loyal Southern mammies. Their bed-time stories compare as literature to the legendary fantasy of Ireland...