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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a89bfac | of Commons | Erik Larson | ||
| 1baaf09 | In his last moments, she said, he had run his fingers over his bedding as if playing the piano. "Do you hear that?" he whispered. "Isn't it wonderful? That's what I call music." | Erik Larson | ||
| d165ff2 | Chicago's merchant princes like devils. George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company's treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. Pullman's friends cautioned that he was being pigheaded and had underestimated the anger of his workers. He moved his family out of Chicago and hid his best china. On | Erik Larson | ||
| 58adfda | But one thing was quite clear..." he wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually," | Erik Larson | ||
| d4eee2b | But one thing was quite clear..." he wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." | Erik Larson | ||
| 65cc857 | DODD REITERATED HIS COMMITMENT to objectivity and understanding in an August 12 letter to Roosevelt, in which he wrote that while he did not approve of Germany's treatment of Jews or Hitler's drive to restore the country's military power, "fundamentally, I believe a people has a right to govern itself and that other peoples must exercise patience even when cruelties and injustices are done. Give men a chance to try their schemes." -- | Erik Larson | ||
| 8218bb5 | Britain had more than twice as many submarines as Germany but used them mainly for coastal defense, not to stop merchant ships.) | Erik Larson | ||
| 06ee81d | Straw Hat Day," Saturday, May 1, when a man could at last break out his summer hats. Men followed this rule." | Erik Larson | ||
| 2c48735 | Eventually she would have an affair with Thomas Wolfe when the writer visited Berlin; Wolfe would tell a friend later that she was "like a butterfly hovering around my penis." | Erik Larson | ||
| afb76d9 | The list of appetizers included stuffed eagles' eggs. | Erik Larson | ||
| b0cc134 | Torpedoes were expensive, and heavy. Each cost up to $ 5,000-- over $ 100,000 today-- and weighed over three thousand pounds, twice the weight of a Ford Model T. | Erik Larson | ||
| cdacf8c | So many men ... think absolute isolation a coming paradise. | Erik Larson | ||
| fe58cf5 | So every night," he said, "I slept with a torpedo and a puppy." | Erik Larson | ||
| 4c9f7b0 | Here she joined the universal struggle shared by men and women throughout time, to temper rejection so as not to lose a friend forever. | Erik Larson | ||
| 89cfdd3 | Five years later, during the final assault on Berlin, a Russian shell scored a direct hit on a stable at the western end of the Tiergarten. The adjacent Kurfurstendamm, once one of Berlin's prime shopping and entertainment streets, now became a stage for the utterly macabre--horses, those happiest creatures of Nazi Germany, tearing wildly down the street with manes and tails aflame. | Erik Larson | ||
| 7f37199 | The city had laid miles and miles of streets and sewers through regions where perhaps one solitary house stood out alone, | Erik Larson | ||
| 2869b55 | It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago "the Windy City." | Erik Larson | ||
| 224c1df | The world, he said, "must face the sad fact that in an age when international cooperation should be the keyword, nations are farther apart than ever." | Erik Larson | ||
| a6d9f86 | Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that convulsed Germany and at last drove Roosevelt to issue a public condemnation. He told reporters he "could scarcely believe that such a thing could occur in twentieth century civilization." | Erik Larson | ||
| 11b82fa | You had to know Putzi to really dislike him. That, | Erik Larson | ||
| e3f2573 | I was inclined to think him Jewish," she wrote; she "considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness." | Erik Larson | ||
| a9079d6 | Later, a passenger reported seeing a woman giving birth in the water. The idea that this might have been his mother would haunt the boy for the rest of his life. | Erik Larson | ||
| 5700f12 | There is no place suitable to my kind of mentality, | Erik Larson | ||
| 1ef68eb | Cunard tickets did not identify babies by name, possibly out of quiet resentment that they traveled free.) | Erik Larson | ||
| 249e8a4 | In which building is the pope?" one woman asked. She was overheard by writer Teresa Dean, who wrote a daily column from the fair. "The pope is not here, madame," the guard said. "Where is he?" "In Italy, Europe, madame." The woman frowned. "Which way is that?" Convinced now that the woman was joking, the guard cheerfully quipped, "Three blocks under the lagoon." She said, "How do I get there?" -- | Erik Larson | ||
| 57d5e4d | Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks. | Erik Larson | ||
| e02c6bf | German navy had its own tradition of assigning nicknames. One very tall commander was nicknamed Seestiefel, or sea boot. Another had a reputation for smelling bad and thus was nicknamed Hein Schniefelig, or stinky person. A third was said to be "very childish and good-natured" and was commonly called Das Kind, the child." | Erik Larson | ||
| a7b986a | She loved "their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life." | Erik Larson | ||
| 70e1560 | The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake. His son Walt would take note. | Erik Larson | ||
| c8d4c68 | a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly... So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal man that no one who examines him in a clinical setting can point out in scientific or objective terms why, or hot, he is not real." - A description of the term "psychopath" by Dr. Hervey Cleckley in the 1890s." | Erik Larson | ||
| 7072fd6 | Do you think all these people would be booking passage on the Lusitania if they thought she could be caught by a German submarine? Why it's the best joke I've heard in many days, this talk of torpedoing the Lusitania.' Both Vanderbilt and Turner laughed. | Erik Larson | ||
| 613a18d | Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth's Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledge that the Bureau of Education mailed to virtually every school. As originally worded, it began, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands ..." A" | Erik Larson | ||
| 9fba83a | But I had at least hoped to find some decent people around Hitler. I am horrified to discover that the whole gang is nothing but a horde of criminals and cowards." Fromm" | Erik Larson | ||
| 02bbea6 | But Roosevelt understood that the political costs of any public condemnation of Nazi persecution or any obvious effort to ease the entry of Jews into America were likely to be immense, because American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. | Erik Larson | ||
| 940a1f0 | On August 3 a big Chicago bank, Lazarus Silverman, failed. | Erik Larson | ||
| 829abc9 | Samuel Gompers, standing at the back of speaker's wagon No. 5, ask, "Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?" For" | Erik Larson | ||
| 4b31462 | We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic. | Erik Larson | ||
| 57da215 | Burnham's frequent admonition: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." Burnham" | Erik Larson | ||
| 4dadd9e | Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper. | Erik Larson | ||
| 1f8187c | Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular. | Erik Larson | ||
| 8d0de4c | All the despair, terror and anguish of hundreds of souls passing into eternity composed that awful cry. | Erik Larson | ||
| f93530a | B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time | Erik Larson | ||
| 9cc1bba | chronic anger | Erik Larson | ||
| 0d5c4ee | On March 30, 1890, an officer of the First National Bank placed a warning in the help-wanted section of the Chicago Tribune, to inform female stenographers of "our growing conviction that no thoroughly honorable business-man who is this side of dotage ever advertises for a lady stenographer who is a blonde, is good-looking, is quite alone in the city, or will transmit her photograph. All such advertisements upon their face bear the marks of.. | Erik Larson |