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...Horrid-Looking Wretch." No two campaigns have ever been exactly alike. They have been fought on such varied issues as Van Buren's high living ("Van, Van is a used-up man"), Al Smith's Catholicism, and Buchanan's bachelorhood ("Who ever heard in all his life, of a candidate without a wife?"). They have been won by a McKinley, sitting quietly on the front porch of his Canton, Ohio home; and lost by a Bryan, carrying his crusade 18,000 miles through 29 states. They have caused the death of at least one candidate: famed Editor...
They have descended to vicious mudslinging. Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man." Andrew Jackson's mother was accused of being "a common prostitute, brought to this country by British soldiers...
...first time a course in secretarial training, and another in publishing procedures, was tried within the confines of Radcliffe. The 100-odd girls enrolled in these subjects were uniformly disillusioned in the Harvard male, but this year they will get a chance to observe the wretch at close range...
...overjoyed at the news. "Oh, my dear darling wife!" said he, "we haven't had one for ages. I love babies." Mamma, who had to run the household on 250 francs a month, said coldly: "So you're glad for me to bring another poor wretch into the world?" And Papa replied: "Of course I'm glad. It'll be a boy this time, he'll be born in 1900, beginning his life with a world's fair...
...poor wretch" who was born in Paris in 1900 was to become Novelist Julian Green, an expatriate American who has written his moody psychological novels in French. Sister Anne Green, who never married, has also spent her life in France but writes her deft, frothy novels in English. With engaging candor and none of the moodiness of her famed brother, she tells in With Much Love the story of the family's first 21 years in France. Few books of family reminiscences have been written with such obvious joy and communicate so much of it to the reader...