The Works of Irvin S. Cobb: Back home. [2] The escape of Mr. Trimm. [3] From place to place. [4] Local color. [5] Myself to date. [6] Old Judge Priest. [7] Snake doctor. [8] Speaking of operations. [9] Sundry accounts. [10] Those times and theseReview of reviews corporation, 1923 - American fiction |
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Page 296 - The train was one of those things misnamed an accommodation train, which meant that it stopped at all stations and hesitated in between. The reporter walked the aisle of his car in a condition which fluctuated between a fever and a chill. It seemed to him that only slow, fat, old ladies
Page 270 - As I ground out my story I snatched a quick look at Wolter. He made me think of a white worm, singed by a flame. He was physically shriveling up. "Rita," the English novelist, who had attended every session of the trial, was sitting just behind me. "Oh, the little
Page 300 - anybody in Louisville knew, no paper had ever before covered such a story in such a way. The admiring managing editor wondered how the reporter ever came to think of it. The reporter didn't tell him. I happen to know, because I was the reporter.
Page 84 - Tribune. The following lines were written on it in a somewhat crabbed hand: Dear Sir: You did excellent work in covering the Merry story for
Page 283 - Cantrill stationed deputies at the doors to search every man who entered for concealed weapons. To show his own fair mindedness in the matter, the Judge himself submitted to being searched twice daily. The finish of. the trial came in the hottest, driest part of August. The summing-up required a full week with night
Page 48 - This minute I can shut my eyes and see the picture of him as he paced up and down the narrow jail corridor in the half light of the flickery gas-jets. I can see his
Page 313 - We've been a bit knocked abaht, sir," said the sergeant to me, "but we shall 'ave the best of 'em yet. As a matter of fact, sir, the beggars cahn't fight, you know." I said to myself that even though the Germans might then be winning leagues of disputed French soil each day, and even though
Page 319 - and so, late in the afternoon, being pretty well fagged out, I went to my room to take a nap. Before lying down I drew the curtains to exclude the daylight but I made the mistake of not locking the outer door of my chamber. Presently I wakened out of a sound sleep to find that
Page 313 - army had broken to bits before their onslaught as they made their great shove toward Paris, still, and in the long run, the Germans could never conquer the breed which produced a man of the type of this non-com.—a man who after what he had gone through yet could state, not in
Page 340 - like a goat, and the whole continent, from shore to shore, rocked with laughter; for Mr. Hughes, then as now, insisted on wearing his face full-rigged. There are certain other things which both writers and comedians have found by testing to be almost as funny for general