Sandy, you have to stumble every so often; have to learn by making mistakes.
Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with a small gray mustache, a small and well-trimmed gray beard – in a community where to sport a beard was to confess one’s self a farmer, a Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Doremus’s detractors said that he maintained the beard just to be “highbrow” and “different,” to try to appear “artistic.” Possibly they were right.
It was a downy town, a drowsy town, a town of security and tradition, which still believed in Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, and to which May Day was not an occasion for labor parades but for distributing small baskets of flowers.
For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!
The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.
Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man.
I tell you, an honest man gets sick when he hears the word ‘Liberty’ today, after what the Republicans did to it!
Any person advocating Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, advocating refusal to enlist in case of war, or advocating alliance with Russia in any war whatsoever, shall be subject to trial for high treason, with a minimum penalty of twenty years at hard labor in prison, and a maximum of death on the gallows, or other form of execution which the judges may find convenient.
For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor. To their purpose they could quote not only Scripture but Jefferson.
The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.
God, sir, men’s souls and blood are not eggshells for tyrants to break!
Manhattan peasants. Kind people, industrious people, generous to their aged, eager to find any desperate cure for the sickness of worry over losing the job. Most facile material for any rabble-rouser.
She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.
Always she was disappointed, but always she effervesced anew –.
She would earn her living.
What conceivable reason could one have for seeking after righteousness in a world which so hated righteousness?
To be “intellectual” or “artistic” or, in their own word, to be “highbrow,” is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
We don’t want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That’s good enough in its way, but isn’t it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?
Except, perhaps, that he was an atheist in theology, he was a strict orthodox Christian.