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...Mountain Charlie" he campaigned with William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and "Wild Bill" Hickok, later was adopted as a White Ute, retired to paint Indians. To his death he wore his hah long, carried a scar across his back, inflicted by Indians as he lay beleaguered in a buffalo wallow...
...drizzling rain made no difference. The great night had come. In the Chamber there would be delirious hours of such oratory as Frenchmen love to wallow in. Sonorous snatches and smart mots would drift out to the magpie crowd. They parbleu, would not wait to read in the papers that at the climax of this Parliamentary orgy the Chamber had sustained or overthrown the Cabinet boldly formed last fortnight in defiance of party leaders by "The Most American of Frenchmen," driving, militant, iconoclastic Andre Tardieu (TIME...
...concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast. Fast new freighters go from San Diego to New York in 13 days; freight cars take about 14 days from seaboard to seaboard. In 1928, 9,868,000 tons...
Much has been said and written about what is wrong with the modern novel, but "The Dark Chamber" exhibits two of its greatest defects. The irrepressible desire to wallow in the morbidities of sex is one. The other is the continual effort to attain a "precious" style. Cline's efforts run to the use of esoteric words and a "lyric" prose...
Once while Horace sat at work amid a wallow of discarded newspapers there entered a caller. But Horace did not turn around. "Ahem, I am Commodore Vanderbilt," the visitor announced, after a moment...