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Updated: June 13, 2025


I can speak of him with a certain familiarity and authority, for I was one of his "boys." I admired him greatly and loved him dearly. Most of the young newspaper men about Philadelphia and Washington did so. He was an all-around modern journalist of the first class. Both as a newspaper writer and creator and manager, he stood upon the front line, rating with Bennett and Greeley and Raymond.

And I know Nan wouldn't enjoy the prospect of an all-around fight on her account. Fighting is a horror to that girl. I've got her feelings to think about as well as my own. I've decided what to do, John. I'm going in alone." "You're going in alone!" "To-night. Now, I'll tell you what I'd like you to do if you want to: ride with me and wait till morning, outside El Capitan.

But when we reached the Boche front trenches a strange thing happened. There was no fight worth mentioning. The tanks stopped over the trenches and blazed away right and left with their all-around traverse. A few Boches ran out and threw silly little bombs at the monsters. The tanks, noses in air, moved slowly on.

"He's a general all-around dog, and ain't afraid of anything that walks. Why, boys, I've known him to tackle and kill the biggest lynx ever seen in these parts, and that's something few dogs could do." "What's a lynx?" asked Bandy-legs. "A species of wildcat that sometimes strays down this way across the Canada border," replied the trapper.

Come down, if you can, and see my new electric sailboat and all-around dynamic Lone Fisherman." The idea took hold of me at once. In my nervous state the change of scene would do me good. Besides, Wilkins was a delightful companion. So, forgetting my woes for the moment, I packed my trunk and started South for Wilkins's Island.

If one were asked to name the most remarkable all-around genius this country has produced, the answer would be Benjamin Franklin whose life was perhaps the fullest, happiest and most useful ever lived in America.

He has seen Ned Mahan grow to manhood. Mahan had his first football training as a player on the Natick High School team. "Ned Mahan," said Pooch, "was the best all-around football man I have ever handled. He was easy to handle, eager to do as he was told, and he never caused the trainer any worry.

Her unusually keen sense of humor prompted her to make her impersonation of the immortal Hatter one long to be remembered by those who witnessed the performance given by the famous animals. She was without doubt the feature of the circus and the spectators were quick to note and applaud her slightest movement. The circus ended with an all-around acrobatic exhibition.

"He's your type, Dick. He's universal, like you, and he's got the same world-marks branded on him the Seven Seas, the books, and all the rest. He's an artist, too, and pretty well all-around. And he's good fun. Have you noticed his smile? It's irresistible. It makes one want to smile with him." "And he's got his serious scars, as well," Dick nodded concurrence.

The result was that meetings on First Day and Fourth Day were times of intense pleasure, occasions of all-around interest: not mere business interest, but incidentally a large satisfaction of the play instinct, especially for the working and mature persons.

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