Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disillusioned by handouts at a publicspeaking class in Manhattan's Women's National Republican Club, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of New York's onetime (1915-18) Republican Governor, announced that she will campaign this year for President Roosevelt. Said she: "Even in Newport I found a number of people whispering behind closed doors that they were in favor of Roosevelt...
...quickened the minds of a generation, yet did not lose his sense of allegiance and duty to his own country as did the later expatriates. At the end he is seen as a dry, superior old aristocrat who still bemoaned the lack of a U. S. literature when Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau were at the peaks of performance...
...cowhand, knew Billy the Kid, outsmarted Old Man Chisum, was a storekeeper, justice of the peace, postmaster, road supervisor, once arranged to have Colorado City, Tex. shot up in his honor when his fortunes stood high. Now he travels from one auto tourist camp to another, looks like Walt Whitman, cherishes a grandiose plan to have grand canals built on both sides of the Continental Divide to save the Old West and solve the unemployment problem...
...Walt Whitman, Poet Benét experiences further difficulty explaining the present to the questioning spirit from the past. When Whitman asks, "Is it well with these States?" the poet's troubled answer...
...convert the sprawling, striving, ugly U. S. to the cult of beauty. The U. S. was more interested in the killing of Jesse James, the trial of Guiteau, who shot President Garfield, the arrival of Lily Langtry, "the Jersey Lily." But Wilde did find two things to admire: Walt Whitman and the Rocky Mountains. He took the jibes of the Press in silence, but once he sent for the writer of a particularly outrageous story, asked him how much he had been paid for it. When the newshawk replied: "Six dollars," Oscar drawled, "Well, the rate for lying...