A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt: A Study of the President at the Nation's BusinessG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 153 pages |
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... Copyright , 1908 MAJOR LOEFFLER , THE DOORKEEPER · 118 From a photograph by Harris & Ewing CALLERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE 126 From a photograph by Brown Brothers , N. Y. A WEEK IN THE WHITE HOUSE A Week in the X Illustrations.
... Copyright , 1908 MAJOR LOEFFLER , THE DOORKEEPER · 118 From a photograph by Harris & Ewing CALLERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE 126 From a photograph by Brown Brothers , N. Y. A WEEK IN THE WHITE HOUSE A Week in the X Illustrations.
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... doorkeeper , Major Loeffler , who , in any other land , would be a personage of recognised influence , though , indeed , his import- ance is recognised here . For , however democratic , the President's audience- room is a court , and ...
... doorkeeper , Major Loeffler , who , in any other land , would be a personage of recognised influence , though , indeed , his import- ance is recognised here . For , however democratic , the President's audience- room is a court , and ...
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... doorkeeper admits the latter from his printed list . The privileged enter without awaiting the doorkeeper's in- vitation , swelling the audience until sometimes there are twenty assembled in the Cabinet room - men the names of half of ...
... doorkeeper admits the latter from his printed list . The privileged enter without awaiting the doorkeeper's in- vitation , swelling the audience until sometimes there are twenty assembled in the Cabinet room - men the names of half of ...
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... ; if it be possible he does- but at all events he gives him a wel- come , the sense that he has done well to come , and then he pumps him dry MAJOR LOEFFLER The Doorkeeper and sends him forth fulfilled of 118 An Estimate of.
... ; if it be possible he does- but at all events he gives him a wel- come , the sense that he has done well to come , and then he pumps him dry MAJOR LOEFFLER The Doorkeeper and sends him forth fulfilled of 118 An Estimate of.
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A Study of the President at the Nation's Business William Bayard Hale. MAJOR LOEFFLER The Doorkeeper and sends him forth fulfilled of the President's own ideas. From a photograph by Harris & Ewing.
A Study of the President at the Nation's Business William Bayard Hale. MAJOR LOEFFLER The Doorkeeper and sends him forth fulfilled of the President's own ideas. From a photograph by Harris & Ewing.
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Page 10 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, . And...
Page 10 - Master of human destinies am I: Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk ! I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away, it is the hour of fate...
Page 44 - You don't smile with Mr. Roosevelt; you shout with laughter with him, and then you shout again while he tries to cork up more laugh and sputters ; 'Come gentlemen, let us be serious'.
Page 10 - If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death: but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more!
Page 125 - ... at all, — nor do they so much as think of it, their minds being intent upon that employ they are in, either the delight or diligence of the soul getting the mastery over all other desires. Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much business stirring ? It may truly be asked concerning a man that is either of public employ or a scholar, What time can such a...
Page 15 - ... condition to-day ; his face clear, his weight I should say wellnigh a stone less than was his habit back of a year ago. Look at him as he stands and you will see that he is rigid as a soldier on parade. His chin is in, his chest out. The line from the back of his head falls straight as a plumb-line to his heels. Never for a moment, while he is on his feet, does that line so much as waver, that neck unbend.
Page 16 - ... from the back of his head falls straight as a plumb-line to his heels. Never for a moment, while he is on his feet, does that line so much as waver, that neck unbend. It is a pillar of steel. Remember that steel pillar. Remember it when he laughs, as he will do a hundred times a...
Page 28 - ... explosions of the President's speech. Dr. Hale, who cannot, of course, reproduce the entire conversation, prints a number of different openings, as Mr. Roosevelt sees his visitor, advances upon him, and wrings his hand. ' Senator, I — am GLAD to see you ! Senator, this is a — VERY great pleasure ! Your daughters ? I am, indeed, pleased to have this visit from you ! How DARE you introduce yourself to me ? A great pleasure— a VERY— GREAT pleasure...
Page 115 - ... dynamo. Once we all believed in a beautiful law known as that of the conservation of energy. No force, so went the dream, was lost. It was only transformed; it underwent metamorphosis; the sum of energy in the universe was always the same. It was the discovery of radium and the radioactive substances which wrought the discomfiture of that law. It is Mr. Roosevelt who discredits it entirely. He never knows that virtue has gone out of him. He radiates from morning until night, and he is nevertheless...