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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4c3448c | had become friends and met often | Erik Larson | ||
| d5468c9 | Whether out of professional pique or some instinct of fear, the ship's mascot--a cat named Dowie, after Captain Turner's predecessor--fled the ship that night, for points unknown. | Erik Larson | ||
| f8785ad | August of 1914, President Woodrow | InstaRead | ||
| 0c4ad2e | I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes. | crisis emotion panic | Erik Larson | |
| f787236 | They looked more like day laborers than seamen. | competence confidence culture professionalism | Erik Larson | |
| cb6c1bb | Its 300 stokers, trimmers, and firemen, working 100 per shift, would shovel 1,000 tons of coal a day into its 192 furnaces to heat its 25 boilers and generate enough superheated steam to spin the immense turbines of its engines. | Erik Larson | ||
| f12b463 | Contrary to the predictions of many students of international problems, I feel fairly certain that we shall not have war in the near future. | Erik Larson | ||
| 041a001 | Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs. | Erik Larson | ||
| df63054 | What most likely caused the second event was the rupture of a main steam line, carrying steam under extreme pressure. This was Turner's theory from the beginning. | Erik Larson | ||
| b9cffda | With the physique of a bank safe, he was the embodiment of quiet strength. | Erik Larson | ||
| feba8c6 | She and a friend joked about what to do if the ship were attacked. "Our stewardess laughed," Mrs. Lines recalled, "and said we would not go down, but up, as we were well loaded with munitions." | Erik Larson | ||
| d3f42ef | In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes. | Erik Larson | ||
| d644b4b | New York's perennial attraction was shopping. | culture materialism | Erik Larson | |
| 0dcfc82 | Murder was a fascination as always. | distraction entertainment mortality violence | Erik Larson | |
| 973924b | During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time. | fear intimidation propaganda reputation | Erik Larson | |
| d10ba86 | My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him. | evangelism graciousness pastor prophecy word-of-god | Erik Larson | |
| 2f8e794 | Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore. | Erik Larson | ||
| f991fec | He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke that nearly removed her head from her spine. | Erik Larson | ||
| f2c1f01 | Another raid followed on January 31, during which nine airships flew as far as Liverpool, along the way sending terrifying shadows scudding across the landscape of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. | Erik Larson | ||
| 59b36a8 | In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. That | Erik Larson | ||
| 2286511 | The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening. | Erik Larson | ||
| a6a7359 | Galveston was too pretty, too progressive, too prosperous--entirely too hopeful--to be true. | Erik Larson | ||
| 1f5caac | would be no skipping and dancing. No heathen. The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham's dream. Everywhere | Erik Larson | ||
| 3327880 | Ned watched her. She was young and pretty--a "handsome blonde," as he later described her." | Erik Larson | ||
| 3344967 | How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago. | opening-lines | Erik Larson | |
| 192d901 | Unterseebootkonstruktionsburo | Erik Larson | ||
| c608fef | the station. | Erik Larson | ||
| c57fa99 | Far from a clamor for war, there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete--that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly. | Erik Larson | ||
| f7d8a99 | A boutonniere rested beside each plate. Everyone wore tuxedos. There was not a woman in sight. | Erik Larson | ||
| 39760c2 | His letter to Rice began, "I have on hand a great project for the World's Fair in Chicago. I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250' in dia." Nowhere in this letter, however, did he reveal the true dimension of his vision:" | Erik Larson | ||
| aa0a9a7 | The Chancellor's assurances were so satisfying and so unexpected that I think they are on the whole too good to be true," Messersmith wrote. "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." Messersmith urged skepticism regarding Hitler's protestations. "I think for the moment he genuinely desires peace but it .. | Erik Larson | ||
| c3ad2dc | Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne, | Erik Larson | ||
| 2e6b28f | Holmes explained that he had been doing some dissection but now had completed his research. He offered Chappell thirty-six dollars to cleanse the bones and skull and return to him a fully articulated skeleton. Chappell agreed. Holmes and Chappell placed the body in a trunk lined with duckcloth. An express company delivered it to Chappell's house. | Erik Larson | ||
| 1575e71 | The Lusitania remained a passenger liner, but with the hull of a battleship. | Erik Larson | ||
| 8a28bfe | Turner, that day, was master of one of the great greyhounds of the North Atlantic--and looked the part. | Erik Larson | ||
| 0952b25 | Among a list of measures effective for inducing vomiting, she included: "Injections of tobacco into the anus through a pipe stem." | Erik Larson | ||
| d255b59 | Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century? | Erik Larson | ||
| 2c2a654 | All the ship had to do was make another turn, away from U-20, and the chase would be over. | Erik Larson | ||
| 173f284 | Where in May 1915 the navy had only thirty U-boats, by 1917 it had more than one hundred, many larger and more powerful than Schwieger's U-20 and carrying more torpedoes. | Erik Larson | ||
| 281230b | Of the 791 passengers designated by Cunard as missing, only 173 bodies, or about 22 percent, were eventually recovered, leaving 618 souls unaccounted for. The percentage for the crew was even more dismal, owing no doubt to the many deaths in the luggage room when the torpedo exploded. | Erik Larson | ||
| f8ed177 | A German admiral, Henning von Holtzendorff, came up with a plan so irresistible it succeeded in bringing agreement between supporters and opponents of unrestricted warfare. By turning Germany's U-boats loose, and allowing their captains to sink every vessel that entered the "war zone," Holtzendorff proposed to end the war in six months. Not five, not seven, but six. He calculated that for the plan to succeed, it had to begin on February 1, .. | Erik Larson | ||
| 623d7f6 | German U-boats were sinking ships at such a high rate that Admiralty officials secretly predicted Britain would be forced to capitulate by November 1, 1917. During the worst month, April, any ship leaving Britain had a one-in-four chance of being sunk. In | Erik Larson | ||
| 9d9768f | If someone asks me why we did not use the regular courts I would reply: at the moment I was responsible for the German nation; consequently | Erik Larson | ||
| 3cbcfaa | WHY THE ADMIRALTY would seek to assign fault to Turner defies ready explanation, given that isolating Germany as the sole offender would do far more to engender global sympathy for Britain and cement animosity toward Germany. By blaming Turner, however, the Admiralty hoped to divert attention from its own failure to safeguard the Lusitania. (Questioned on the matter in the House of Commons on May 10, 1915, Churchill had replied, rather cool.. | Erik Larson |