E Bok - The americanization (1921) (eng)

... men who, as each vessel was wrecked, looted the vessel and murdered those of the crew who reached shore. The government of the Netherlands decided to exterminate the island pirates, and for the ... it. One evening when Edward was attending a theatrical performance, he noticed the restlessness of the women in the audience between the acts. In those days it was, even more th...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 13:25

... returned Mr. Roosevelt. Then there came a white rose from the presidential desk for the mother, but after that father and mother might as well have faded away. Nobody existed save the President ... see the little fellow." In the spring, on a beautiful May day, came the great moment. The mother had to go along, the boy insisted, to see the great event, and so the trio...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 23:15

... suggestions; they were quite competent to decide for themselves the particular subjects for their meetings, they argued; they did not care to be tutored or guided, particularly by Bok. They were ... gave him a supper. There were some thirty men in the party; the affair was an exceedingly happy one; the happiest that Bok had attended. He said this to Riley on the way to the hote...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... the ingredients in their nostrums; the mails were wide open to their circulars, and the pages of even the most reputable periodicals welcomed their advertisements. The patent-medicine business ... aigrette, the most desired of all the feathered possessions of womankind. He had been told of the cruel torture of the mother-heron, who produced the beautiful aigrette only in h...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15

... his attendance at the orchestra concerts. After a busy week, he discovered that nothing he had ever experienced served to quiet him so much as these end-of -the- week concerts. They were not too ... considered themselves good citizens if they kept their own places sightly, but the idea of devoting their evenings to the problems of their community had never occurred to them before the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... done: the officers were as much amazed to find themselves under fire as were the members of the party, except that the latter did not feel the responsibility to an equal degree. The officers, ... no object could be touched that lay on the battle-fields; the streets of some of the towns were still mined, so that no automobiles could enter; the towns were deserted, the str...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 17:15

... when they hied themselves to a little home in the country, had open house for their friends, and "kept bees." While bee-keeping is unquestionably interesting, there are to-day other ... towns where our doughboys were billeted, some in the homes of the peasants, others in stables, barns, outhouses, lean-tos, and what not. These were the troops on their way to the front wher...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 00:15

... impressed upon me that laws of themselves were futile unless the people for whom they were made respected them, and obeyed them in spirit more even than in the letter. I came to America to feel, ... whether he is not able to get a truer perspective; whether his is not the deeper desire to see America greater; whether he is not less content to let its faulty institutions be as they are;...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 16:15

... coal spilled from the coal-bin of the grocery-store, or left on the curbs before houses where coal had been delivered. The mother remonstrated with the boys, although in her heart she knew that the necessity ... around the corner where Edward lived the cars stopped to water the horses on their long haul. The boy noticed that the men jumped from the open cars in summer,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20

... offered itself when the city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle asked him to report two speeches at a New England Society dinner. The speakers were to be the President of the United States, General ... did not get the speech, and he noticed that the reporters for the other papers fared no better. Nothing daunted, however, after the speechmaking, Edward resolutely sought the Pres...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20