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...North and the South in 1850 were tired and exhausted with the heat of the great debate that had killed Calhoun, and sent Clay and Webster to their death-beds. The Compromise had been passed, and the two great empires within an empire went to their corners to bind up their wounds. The delicious calm and relaxation that follows struggle had enveloped them. The conciliatory spirit of Clay, that sprang from the open meadows and wooded streams of the Blue Grass of Kentucky, had prevailed over both the hot blood of South Carolina and the brawling abolitionism of the North...
TIME is right as usual, and so is Mr. Webster, in defining "bindle" as bundle. Mr. Howard F. Clark is slightly in error when he insists that "bundle stiff" is the proper term. It is "bindle," not bundle...
...Webster defines soldier of fortune as "one who follows a military career wherever there is promise of profit, ad venture or pleasure." To Adventurer Joseph C. Stehlin, thanks for clarifying his record...
Sirs: In reference to your article on William E. Borah, may I commend you on your splendid tribute to a splendid American? WILLIAM H. WEBSTER Webster Groves...
...parallel usage, cf. Hamlet, gravedigger scene: "Quite chop-fallen." Webster gives prat, Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, prat or pratt. Example: "We ain't to do nothing . . . but to set down upon our prats...