Word: wading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile run--Won by Wade, (Y); second, Drew, (Y); third, Knowlton, (Y). Time...
...made a perfunctory beginning as a Council insideman last Wednesday and just got my sheen off without really getting a chance to hop in and wade around a bit. "Perfunctory" because I was outbralled by a "colorful" speaker (Merwin K. Hart) in the chamber above and didn't learn that the three-ring Student Council show was aprogress below until a shirtsleoved and weary messenger appeared and gave me the word. Upon finally arriving at the scene of the plotting, I got into the feel of the thing a bit but rather expect that future Council meetings will be more...
...JOURNALS OF FRANCIS PARKMAN (718 pp.)-Edited by Mason Wade-Harper...
...Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than his books, disappeared in 1904, barely mined by scholars. Biographer Mason Wade found them in overlooked drawers of Parkman's Boston study in 1940, has edited them with care and prefaced them with candor...
...only 17 when he made his first entries, but he had already decided to become an historian. At 23 he made his tour of the Oregon Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book during the next three years. The Oregon Trail journal, as Editor Wade points out, is better as history, and more readable, than the book written from it. The reason: illness and near-blindness forced Parkman to dictate, a method which soon became as "easy as lying." The Oregon Trail was then edited by prissy Harvardman Charles Eliot Norton and "carefully bowdlerized of much...