Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...moralists were licked, the novel triumphant. Then it became transfigured with Uplift-Mesmerism, Mormonism, Bloomerism, above all, Teetotalism and Abolitionism. As villain, the boozer rivaled the seducer, now plying his wenches with animal magnetism and transcendentalism, instead of sighs and potions. Among temperance novelists was Walt Whitman, who confided that he wrote the "rot" with the help of several bottles of port. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was promptly answered by at least 14 pro-slavery novels, including Aunt Phillis's Cabin. Deep in their weeping willows and haunted groves, early U. S. novelists...
...Burt Whitman of the Herald: "The best I can do on this one is to say that everything depends on the boys' mental and physical condition as they take the field. Harvard should prove superior of the ground, but she will have to beat of a dangerous aerial onslaught. The Crimson forward wall has the call over it's rival...
Wagner's Boat: Frank Hinckley, Hallet Whitman, Sandy Whitman, Jerry Prince, Pop Jenks, Carl Seligman, Jim Montgomery, and Dick Palmer...
...Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects a crown ("I must view with abhorrence"). Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby, whose sons had been killed in battle ("I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine. . . ."). Emerson hails Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds off death in the Antarctic long enough to scrawl...
Nearest thing to an official Willkie song is a jazzlike tune, the favorite of the music committee of the Associated Willkie Clubs: Wendell Willkie Goes to Washington, by Murray Whitman and Noel Bear. Chorus...