 | Vivian Trow Thayer - American literature - 1926 - 630 pages
...stripe. But he was a willing puppet, Bryan was, willing and eager. Not one of his masters was more than he at lies, and forgeries and blasphemies and...and must abide with it in the history of infamy." This Bryan, — the leader of a political movement that rocked the nation, — has been all but forgotten... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 848 pages
...other desperadoes of that stripe. But he was a willing puppet, Bryan was — willing and eager. None of his masters was more apt than he at lies and forgeries...iniquities of that campaign against the Ten Commandments." Since this was the language of cultivated and educated gentlemen, the argument of the street must be... | |
 | Kirby Page - United States - 1928 - 376 pages
...anarchist, and Debs, the revolutionist. But he was a willing puppet, Bryan was — willing and eager. None of his masters was more apt than he at lies and forgeries...iniquities of that campaign against the Ten Commandments. Of course, nothing like that would be possible today. If the Tribune, or any other newspaper tried... | |
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... vanity and mouthing resounding rottenness was not the real leader of that league of hell. He was only a puppet in the bloodimbued hands of Altgeld, the anarchist, and Debs, the revolutionist, and other desperadoes of that stripe. But he was a willing... 
