The island seemed deserted to-day, yet I observed some new houses among the weather-stained ones, as if the tribe still had a desi...gn upon life; but generally they have a very shabby, forlorn, and cheerless look, being all back side and woodshed, not homesteads, even Indian homesteads.... The church is the only trim-looking building, but that is not Abenaki, that was Rome's doings. Good Canadian it may be, but it is poor Indian. These were once a powerful tribe. Politics are all the rage with them now. I even thought that a row of wigwams, with a dance of powwows, and a prisoner tortured at the stake, would be more respectable than this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed..., there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,... your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed Alleluia!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
President Kennedy had a wholesome, widely discussed, and largely deserved reputation for his interest in women.... But no Presiden...t, however young and energetic, could possibly have gotten around to all the ladies in Washington, New York, and Hollywood who made claim to his affections after he died.... Such was the force of Jack Kennedy and the manner of his death that anyone associated with him, even the pretenders, assumed added glamour and interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why don't you put something on the phonograph, a low-down mean blue. Play it over and over again until you crack it and get sick o...f it and then go back to work. I do it all the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »