Word: white
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second team, Sam White and Homer Peabody, both lettermen, are two notches above six feet and Lee Bird is one inch over the mark. Johnny Rigby drops down to five, eleven, and Bobby James is a bare five feet...
Among the Eliot squad seeing action were Chute, Ossaua, T. Miller, Hull, A. Miller, and Henderson. On the Dudley list were: Regan, White, Durant, Harris, Clay, MacDonald, Santesuosso, and Hawthorne...
...nothing whatever to say as to how $4,000,000,000 in slave property could be liquidated. "He seemed to insist," says Sandburg, "that he could be an insolent agitator and a perfect gentleman both at once. His critics held that he was either a skunk or a white swan but not both." He was the only man of whom Lincoln said, "Sumner thinks he runs...
Intricacies. The lank man in the White House whom a large section of the press, North and South and in England, referred to as a "gorilla" proved himself through four years of heartbreaking war to be one of the ablest and most subtle statesmen in history. Step by step, chapter & verse, Carl Sandburg sets him forth as indeed the merciful, mystic and benign being of the monuments, but as also-and with profound consistency-a hard, circumspect, far-seeing politician and manager of men. Lincoln's speeches and writings were the work of a remarkably pure human intellect, always...
Structure. As Sandburg's narrative of war and politics goes on, it gathers such momentum that he can toss in a chapter the length of an ordinary novel, dealing entirely with White House routine, and lose little by it. The look and sound and layout of Washington, the character of battles, the diversity of talk and action over the country emerge as clearly as the central presence of Lincoln, revealed in touches both familiar and unfamiliar (e.g., Emerson's noting that he "showed all his white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North...