The Boys' Life of Theodore RooseveltHarper & Brothers, 1918 - 374 pages |
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... younger Theodore Roosevelt like a thunder - storm in the night . In a sense , he slept through it . He was two and a half when it broke out , too young to be conscious of the tenseness and distress in the house in Twentieth Street or ...
... younger Theodore Roosevelt like a thunder - storm in the night . In a sense , he slept through it . He was two and a half when it broke out , too young to be conscious of the tenseness and distress in the house in Twentieth Street or ...
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... younger , just turned three , saw little of his father that first winter of the war . For his father , having done what he could to send soldiers to the front , had by that time turned his attention to the care of the families they had ...
... younger , just turned three , saw little of his father that first winter of the war . For his father , having done what he could to send soldiers to the front , had by that time turned his attention to the care of the families they had ...
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... younger , now aged four , underwent his first and only spanking . It happened this way . For some reason or other not quite clear he had bitten his sister's arm . This was a crime , he knew , and he fled forthwith to the back yard and ...
... younger , now aged four , underwent his first and only spanking . It happened this way . For some reason or other not quite clear he had bitten his sister's arm . This was a crime , he knew , and he fled forthwith to the back yard and ...
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... younger . That fugitive from justice heaved the dough at him and bolted for the stairway . He was caught half- way up and treated as on the whole he deserved . And with that important event Theodore Roose- velt the younger actively ...
... younger . That fugitive from justice heaved the dough at him and bolted for the stairway . He was caught half- way up and treated as on the whole he deserved . And with that important event Theodore Roose- velt the younger actively ...
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... younger in- vented a game wherein he was the blockade ( on one of the bridges over the bridle - paths in Central Park ) and various boys and girls , mostly cousins , were the runners . It is noteworthy that he took the Union side even ...
... younger in- vented a game wherein he was the blockade ( on one of the bridges over the bridle - paths in Central Park ) and various boys and girls , mostly cousins , were the runners . It is noteworthy that he took the Union side even ...
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Page 220 - I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved country.
Page 90 - I strode past him, with my rifle at the ready, there, not ten steps off, was the great bear, slowly rising from his bed among the young spruces. He had heard us, but apparently hardly knew exactly where or what we were, for he reared up on his haunches sideways to us. Then he saw us and dropped down again on all fours, the shaggy hair on his neck and shoulders seeming to bristle as he turned toward us.
Page 235 - ... merciless in dealing with every friend of disorder. This great country will not fall into anarchy, and if anarchists should ever become a serious menace to its institutions, they would not merely be stamped out, but would involve in their own ruin every active or passive sympathizer with their doctrines. The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
Page 308 - I will not enter into any fight for the nomination, and I will not permit any factional fight to be made in my behalf. Indeed, I will go further and say that it would be a mistake to nominate me unless the country has in its mood something of the heroic, unless it feels not only like devoting itself to ideals, but to the purpose measurably to realize those ideals in action.
Page 210 - Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done us in return. Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not prepared to back up with deeds, and that, while our speech is always moderate, we are ready and willing to make it good. Such an attitude will be the surest possible guarantee of that self-respecting peace, the attainment of which is and...
Page 207 - ... Yes," and added, as I reached the door, "Good night." Then, as the door opened, my opponent, or visitor, whichever one chooses to call him, whose face was as 'impassive and as inscrutable as that of Mr. John Hamlin in a poker game, said : "Hold on ! We accept. Send in So-andso [the man I had named]. The Senator is very sorry, but he will make no further opposition !" I never saw a bluff carried more resolutely through to the final limit.
Page 170 - Order the squadron except the Monocacy to Hong Kong. Keep full of coal. In the .event of declaration of war Spain, your duty will be to see that the Spanish Squadron does not leave the Asiatic coast, and then offensive operations in Philippine Islands.
Page 241 - The claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is," he wrote, "just exactly as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the island of Nantucket.
Page 189 - As for the political effect of my actions; in the first place, I never can get on in politics, and in the second, I would rather have led that charge and earned my colonelcy than served three terms in the United States Senate.
Page 246 - A snow-storm came on toward evening, but we kept warm and comfortable in a grove of splendid silver firs — rightly named " magnificent " — near the brink of the wonderful Yosemite Valley. Next day we clambered down into it and at nightfall camped in its bottom, facing the giant cliffs over which the waterfalls thundered. Surely our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias...