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...intellectual history. Brooks croons over Emerson for pages, but is singularly vague in defining his philosophy of transcendentalism. He refers to Dreiser's concern over the relation between morals and success, but does not say what that relation was. Nowhere does he approach the lucidity and incisiveness of Vernon Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought...
Supporting the Warren Club's orators will be Jack Brown 3L, Robert A. Goldston 3L, Alvin Levin 3L, David H. Vernon 3L, Robert Warsaw 3L, and Marvin W. Weinstein...
Just before Christmas 1758, George Washington, 26, late colonel of militia in the French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...
Wine from Lisbon. Pastoral, warm, gracious-so flowed life in Mt. Vernon. Washington overextended himself in land and fell in debt for a while. But he skillfully rotated his crops at Mt. Vernon, grew wheat when others were growing tobacco, and kept on prospering. He was able to ride in a coach & six and to lay down in his cellar pipes of fine Madeira and the "best Lisbon wine...
Courtesy of the Road. Near Port Wing, Wis., Motorist Vernon Anderson pulled to a stop, flagged down the car behind him, frantically told its occupants that his wife was about to have a baby, relaxed when a druggist, an obstetrician and two other doctors got out to lend a hand...