Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DANIEL WEBSTER-Claude M. Fuess- Little, Brown ($10).† If a decent interval has interposed between you and your schooldays, you probably think of Daniel Webster as a forbidding old party who invented U. S. oratory and was somehow not elected President. Perhaps you may have the idea he wrote a dictionary.**With the exception of the bit about the dictionary, your memory is accurate if not exhaustive. No debunker but a solid and serious historian, Fuess has filled two fat volumes with facts about his hero, facts which somehow, however, do not add up into a speaking likeness. Some...
Most impressive figure in the Senate, Webster, 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs., with coarse black hair and glowing eyes, always wore a blue coat with brass buttons. His fame was international. When he visited England he was lionized, called "the Great Western." After an audience with sprightly young Queen Victoria, Webster pronounced her "intelligent and agreeable." Practical farmer and lover of the country, Webster was a first-rate angler. He thought his success due "to careful and thorough fishing of the difficult places which others do not so fish." Once out shooting he peppered a stranger by mistake...
When this speaker, accustomed to audiences, lay dying, his mind wandered for a few moments; when he came to himself he asked: "Have I, on this occasion, said anything unworthy of Daniel Webster...
...that Biographer Fuess has done, it is not as a statesman but as the orator of the Plymouth oration, the Bunker Hill address, the reply to Hayne, that the U. S. remembers Daniel Webster. Some Websterisms...
History 68, Professor Webster, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 10 o'clock...