Word: appomattox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Trinity's churchyard at the head of Wall Street slept humidly under a blazing sun, while some 250 men-public utilitarians, newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal surrender; the Appomattox of the six-year fight by Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s shaggy, barrel-chested President Wendell Lewis Willkie to stave off public ownership of public utilities in the Tennessee River Valley...
...ranches of the Santa Cruz Valley, dirt cheap. One admirer, tall, lean Peter Muncie, she sent to Kentucky for a herd of cattle to stock her ranches. The other, Gambler Jefferson Carteret, a Southern aristocrat with drooping eyelids and ornate manners, went off prospecting, found a gold mine. By Appomattox Phoebe had the mine, the ranches, the cattle, her prosperous freighting business, an infant son. "Him 'n' Arizony is babies together," she said. "You 'n' me, Peter, has got to help both of 'em grow...
...grew up to own a plantation, fight under Longstreet in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, raid with Forrest, build railroads with a fellow Confederate veteran, Colonel Thurmond, after Appomattox. He fought duels, wrote a popular thriller, The White Rose of Memphis, which had sold 160,000 copies before it went out of print 30 years ago, made the grand tour of Europe, always went armed. He also quarreled with peace-loving Partner Thurmond, ran against him for the legislature. On election day 1889, after a savage campaign, Colonel Falkner walked out unarmed after hearing...
...Appomattox Day, April 9, 1890, when Benjamin Harrison was the seventh Republican President of the U. S., two young Chicago lawyers named Robert McMurdy and Lester Coffeen opened a Republican social club in a three-story white stone house facing Lake Michigan. Last week to old Lawyer McMurdy, 77, and many another stanch Republican member came the news that the Hamilton Club, for four decades one of the most famous political fraternities in the U. S., was about to close its doors...
...epical poem The New World. Homerically splendid in conception but plain dull, for the most part, in execution, the book presents a detailed catalog of slips whereby the New World has fallen from its original promise of a New Age to the "age of brass" following Appomattox; to the ''age of gas" initiated by "logolyrist" Woodrow Wilson; finally to the "age of soap-grease" sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt. Most tragic slip, in Poet Masters' reckoning, was the Civil...