 ... thinking of your coal bills and heavy underwear. But as soon as they come to mistake your silence for conviction, madness comes upon them, and they picture the city of the Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion,...  O. Henry Biography - Pagina 230di Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 258 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1915 - 680 pagine
...cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended)," says the author in his philosophical overture to the story, "it is a rash one who will lay his finger on the map...and say : 'In this town there can be no romance.' " In "The Gift <jf the Magi" the philosophical paragraph comes last. It explains how the story came... | |
 | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - 1906 - 942 pagine
...cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended)," says the author in his philosophical overture to the story, "it is a rash one who will lay his finger on the map and say, 'In this town there can be no romance.' " In "The Gift of the Magi" the philosophical paragraph comes last. It explains how the story came... | |
 | O. Henry - 1918 - 330 pagine
...Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended),...can be no romance — what could happen here? " Yes, it is a bold and a rash deed to challenge in one sentence history, romance, and Rand and McNally. NASHVILLE.... | |
 | O. Henry - 1910 - 330 pagine
...Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended), it is a rash one who will lay his fmger on the map and say: "In this town there can be no romance — what could happen here?" Yes, it... | |
 | Walter B. Pitkin - 1913 - 292 pagine
...Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended),...can be no romance — what could happen here?" Yes, it is a bold and rash deed to challenge in one sentence history, romance, and Rand and McNally. I call... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1913 - 644 pagine
...cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended)," says the author in his philosophical overture to the story, "it is a rash one who will lay his finger on the map and say, 'In this town there can be no romance.' " In "The Gift of the Magi" the philosophical paragraph comes last. It explains how the story came... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 312 pagine
...Norris who had said : Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States...can be no romance — what could happen here? Yes, it is a bold and a rash deed to challenge in one sentence history, romance, and Rand and McNally. Then... | |
 | O. Henry - 1917 - 336 pagine
...Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended),...can be no romance — what could happen here?" Yes, it is a bold and a rash deed to challenge in one sentence history, romance, and Rand and McNally. NASHVILLE.... | |
 | O. Henry - 1922 - 298 pagine
...Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and , Eve descended),...can be no romance — what could happen here?" Yes, it is a bold and a rash deed to challenge in one sentence history, romance, and Rand and McNally. NASHVILLE.... | |
 | Glenn Clark - 1922 - 280 pagine
...Golden Gate as the Bagdad of the New World. So far, as a matter of opinion, no refutation is necessary. But, dear cousins all (from Adam and Eve descended),...can be no romance — what could happen here?' Yes, it is a bold and rash deed to challenge in one sentence history, romance, and Rand McNally." — From... | |
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