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...ponderous, congeals the fiery blood of a natural cavalryman. Theodore Roosevelt resigns to organize a volunteer corps. The Rough Riders gather in San Antonio-cowboys, jailbreakers, sheriffs, wealthy young clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap...
Even 100 years later, with a greatly "modernized" system of transportation, the trip to Boston was probably more interesting than the short ride of today. In 1840, the omnibus used to start from Willards Tavern, according to accounts a worthy pub which stood where the carbarn is today, and it took an hour, when the roads were in good condition, to get to Boston. In the Spring, when the roads were thick and deep with mud, it was a common experience for the passengers to climb out of their coach and lift the wheels out of the mire. The service...
...could taunt thus savagely, the attitude of the Court may be imagined. Little Wilhelm, brilliant, neurotic, effeminate, afraid, was driven to wrench up the very roots of his personality. He would show them! He did. After a purgatory of physical suffering he learned to use his withered arm, to ride, to swagger and to bluster-though he drank little, and did not, says Herr Ludwig, acquire the manly art of "talking bawdy." At last, even grizzled old Wilhelm I, his grandfather, said of his horsemanship at maneuvers, "Well done! I could never have believed you could...
...called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression "as depressing as a subway ride." William James at least had a style, the lack of which suggests an organic failing in his disciple. Philosopher Santayana preserves a sense of beauty, but is at once exotic and provincial...
King-Emperor: "Said I, last week, at the London horseshow: 'I don't like to see women ride astride; the other way is much more graceful...