| John Clark Ridpath, Selden Connor - Legislators - 1893 - 520 pages
...was an expert, he hoped that he would not be too severe in that mode of handling his innocent self. ' The contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so...disdain ; his grandiloquent swell ; his majestic, super-eminent, over-powering, turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all members of... | |
| John Clark Ridpath, Selden Connor - Legislators - 1893 - 518 pages
...was an expert, he hoped that he would not be too severe in that mode of handling his innocent self. ' The contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so...disdain ; his grandiloquent swell ; his majestic, super-eminent, over-powering, turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all members of... | |
| James Barnet Fry - New York (State) - 1893 - 356 pages
...course. Before the day's debate closed Mr. Blaine answered Mr. Conkling [see Appendix B], saying: •' As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. Contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting, his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell,... | |
| James Barnet Fry - New York (State) - 1893 - 360 pages
...course. Before the day's debate closed Mr. Elaine answered Mr. Conkling [see Appendix B], saying : " As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. Contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting, his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell,... | |
| James Barnet Fry - New York (State) - 1893 - 358 pages
...course. Be'rore the day's debate closed Mr. Elaine answered Mr. Conkling [see Appendix B], saying: " As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. Contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting, his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell,... | |
| Gail Hamilton - United States - 1895 - 1130 pages
...gentleman from Maine might be saying by writing busily, there came one swift downpour of scorn for scorn. " As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will...haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut, has been so crushing to myself and all the members... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1897 - 832 pages
...political annals that characterization of Conkling which cost him the nomination of 1876 (p. 174) : "The contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so...haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 498 pages
...not a theory. — Annual message, 1887. Coupling's « Turkey- Gobbler Strut »— James G. Blalne : As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will...haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the Members... | |
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