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| 0476787 | Early on August 4, a quiet, clear, luminous morning, seventy miles to the east of Brussels, the first invaders, units of von Marwitz's Cavalry, crossed into Belgium. Coming at a steady purposeful trot, they carried twelve-foot steel-headed lances and were otherwise hung about with an arsenal of sabers, pistols, and rifles. Harvesters looking up from the roadside fields, villagers peering from their windows, whispered, "Uhlans!" The outlandi.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 6b3875e | As vanguard of the invasion, the cavalry's mission was to reconnoiter the position of the Belgian and French armies, to watch out for British landings, and to screen the German deployment against similar enemy reconnaissance. On the first day the duty of the advance squadrons, supported by infantry brought up in automobiles, was to seize the crossings of the Meuse before the bridges were destroyed and capture farms and villages as sources o.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 2cf8aab | Behind them, filling the roads that converged on Liege came the infantry of Emmich's assault force, rank after rank. Only the red regimental number painted on helmet fronts broke the monotony of field-gray Horse-drawn field artillery followed. The new leather of boots and harness creaked. Companies of cyclists sped ahead to seize road crossings and farmhouses and lay telephone wires. Automobiles honked their way through, carrying monocled S.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 840f2f8 | There was an aura about 1914 that caused those who sensed it to shiver for mankind. Tears came even to the most bold and resolute. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 3de6bd7 | In the annual Feast of Fools at Christmastime, every rite and article of the Church no matter how sacred was celebrated in mockery. A dominus festi, or lord of the revels, was elected from the inferior clergy--the cures, subdeacons, vicars, and choir clerks, mostly ill-educated, ill-paid, and ill-disciplined--whose day it was to turn everything topsy-turvy. They installed their lord as Pope or Bishop or Abbot of Fools in a ceremony of head-.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 16d210f | In Brussels the leaves had begun to fall, and a sudden wind blew them in gusts about the street. People felt the hidden chill of autumn in the air and wondered what would happen if the war were to last through the winter. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 823eb75 | Each soldier carried sixty-five pounds: rifle and ammunition, knapsack, canteen, extra boots, entrenching tools, knife and a multiplicity of implements and kits strapped to his coat. In one bag was his "iron ration" containing two cans of meat, two of vegetables, two packages of hardtack, one of ground coffee, and a flask of whisky which was only to be opened on permission of an officer and was inspected daily to determine if its owner had .. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| e484e09 | THE GRANDS BOULEVARDS WERE EMPTY, shop fronts were shuttered, buses, trams, cars, and horse cabs had disappeared. In their place flocks of sheep were herded across the Place de la Concorde on their way to the Gare de l'Est for shipment to the front. Unmarred by traffic, squares and vistas revealed their purity of design. Most newspapers having ceased publication, the kiosks were hung meagerly with the single-page issues of the survivors. Al.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| b86db41 | Nevertheless Sir John French next day sent Joffre definitive notice that the British Army would not be in condition to take its place in the line "for another ten days." Had he asked for ten days' time out when fighting with his back to London he would not have survived in command. As it was, Sir John French remained Commander in Chief for another year and a half." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 35aa4ee | his secretary-press-agent-private-philosopher, Lee Sarason, yielded nothing to others'. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 86f8738 | I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain. | Alan Bennett | ||
| 0eeb5f9 | He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance against the bigotry that was preached equally by Communism and Fascism. But | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 4c3c9d9 | Actually, the great traveler is usually a small, mussy person in a faded, green, fuzzy hat, inconspicuous in a corner of the steamer bar. He speaks only one language, and that gloomily. He knows all the facts about 19 countries except the home lives, wage scales, exports, religions, politics, agriculture, history and languages of those countries. He is as valuable as Baedeker in regard to hotels and railroads, only not so accurate. He who h.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 155fd40 | He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would loom up between him and new skies, however rosy. It was a good self. He liked it, for he had worked with it. Perhaps it could learn things. But would it learn any more here, where it was chilled by the unfamiliarity, than in his quiet library, in solitary walks, in honestly auditing his life, back in Zenith? | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 2970c12 | his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| c12aa49 | his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change. Class, gender, and sexual preference were themes that he cared about, and he showed his readers that none of these factors actually mattered. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 3c2259c | Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 5c38714 | Lewis was an extremely cold, stern, and business-minded man. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| ccb43dc | dull and repetitive lifestyle. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 9a51b43 | The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| eb87581 | some | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 9d97600 | Even when she was tired her dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull, | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 87995e8 | She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| e7fb818 | The conspicuous fault of the Jeffersonian Party, like the personal fault of Senator Trowbridge, was that it represented integrity and reason, in a year when the electorate hungered for frisky emotions, | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| c609f80 | Always she was disappointed, but always she effervesced anew-- | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| b31fedd | She would earn her living. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 7884df2 | What conceivable reason could one have for seeking after righteousness in a world which so hated righteousness? | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 3aad178 | It had been cold in Vermont, with early snow, but the white drifts lay to the earth so quietly, in unstained air, that the world seemed a silver-painted carnival, left to silence. Even on a moonless night, a pale radiance came from the snow, from the earth itself, and the stars were drops of quicksilver. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 4bc0026 | 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 country store." | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 52fdaab | We have contained this. I won't say airtight but pretty close to airtight. | Larry Kudlow | ||
| 52c204f | What this country needs is Discipline! Peace is a great dream, but maybe sometimes it's only a pipe dream! I'm not so sure--now this will shock you, but I want you to listen to one woman who will tell you the unadulterated hard truth instead of a lot of sentimental taffy, and I'm not sure but that we need to be in a real war again, in order to learn Discipline! We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's .. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 1c53b8f | Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical--yes, or more obsequious!--than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 20d62ec | Reading old Gray? That's right. Physician's library just three books: 'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare. Study. You may become great doctor. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 632d4ef | Remember our Red scares and our Catholic scares, when all well-informed people knew that the O.G.P.U. were hiding out in Oskaloosa, and the Republicans campaigning against Al Smith told the Carolina mountaineers that if Al won the Pope would illegitimatize their children? Remember Tom Heflin and Tom Dixon? Remember when the hick legislators in certain states, in obedience to William Jennings Bryan, who learned his biology from his pious old.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 4e73ec0 | They took it, too, like Napoleon's soldiers. And they had the Jews and the Negroes to look down on, more and more. The M.M.'s saw to that. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. * | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| b37789d | Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'? And wartime censorship of honest papers? Bad as Russia! | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| c393cae | Why are you so afraid of the word 'Fascism,' Doremus? Just a word--just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours--not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini--like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days--and have 'em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| b2fc500 | We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| dbf4f5b | It is, to tell the truth, just such a Main Street as Sinclair Lewis describes with such delightful malevolence, but like that Main Street and all Main Streets, behind its commonplace facade life is as varied and colorful as any spot where human beings are gathered, however dull their outward shell may appear to the superficial observer. | knox-college main-street | Earnest Elmo Calkins | |
| 94e1421 | I just wish people wouldn't quote Lincoln or the Bible, or hang out the flag or the cross, to cover up something that belongs more to the bank-book and the three golden balls. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| f4ce68d | His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 2eaf191 | ydhshny 'n 'jd 'shkhSan kthyryn y`rfwn `n shw'wny lshkhSy@ 'kthr mm '`rfh `n nfsy. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 022f9b8 | There were eight simple lessons in plain language anybody could understand, and I studied them just a few hours a night, then started practising on the wife. Soon found I could talk right up to the Super and get due credit for all the good work I did. They began to appreciate me and advance me fast, and say, old doggo, what do you think they're paying me now? $6,500 per year! And say, I find I can keep a big audience fascinated, speaking on.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 570a46b | Counsel: [You are charged with] loitering to commit a felony. Now then Mr Golightly... | Alan Bennett |