Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 110Scribner & Company, 1925 |
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... American at the League of Nations . GERMAN SETTLERS IN THE UNITED STATES .. The Old World in the New . GREENWICH VILLAGE , THE RISE AND FALL OF . I - ITS RISE " HALLELUJAH , I'M A BUM ! " . HUNGARY , A CHILDHOOD IN HIGH .. The Making of ...
... American at the League of Nations . GERMAN SETTLERS IN THE UNITED STATES .. The Old World in the New . GREENWICH VILLAGE , THE RISE AND FALL OF . I - ITS RISE " HALLELUJAH , I'M A BUM ! " . HUNGARY , A CHILDHOOD IN HIGH .. The Making of ...
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... American institution has prediction been so sterile , and the application of remorseless logic so bewilderingly ... America , but neither solved the negro problem nor altered our basic cotton agronomy . So long as the colored brethren ...
... American institution has prediction been so sterile , and the application of remorseless logic so bewilderingly ... America , but neither solved the negro problem nor altered our basic cotton agronomy . So long as the colored brethren ...
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... America's political Arctic Circle . The battle - ground for our party is the West , not the East . 84 Which way are we Democrats to turn ? Shall we commit hara - kiri for Senator La Follette's benefit ? Can we remain as we are , a ...
... America's political Arctic Circle . The battle - ground for our party is the West , not the East . 84 Which way are we Democrats to turn ? Shall we commit hara - kiri for Senator La Follette's benefit ? Can we remain as we are , a ...
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... America next year . Or it might be that her Vienna contract could be ar- ranged , and she could tour America and revisit New York in April . She wanted a play to add to her repertory , to be produced either in Italy or in America next ...
... America next year . Or it might be that her Vienna contract could be ar- ranged , and she could tour America and revisit New York in April . She wanted a play to add to her repertory , to be produced either in Italy or in America next ...
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... American , the villain is British ; they contend for the Carolina- bred heroine , and of course the native hero wins her , after a struggle which might have been narrated twenty years ago by the author of " Alice of Old Vincennes " or ...
... American , the villain is British ; they contend for the Carolina- bred heroine , and of course the native hero wins her , after a struggle which might have been narrated twenty years ago by the author of " Alice of Old Vincennes " or ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.