Less well known but perhaps even more interesting than Stephenson is Court Asher, the second gentleman from Indiana. Asher is a more convincing bigot than Stephenson, one more homegrown and more Hoosier than the puffed-up grand dragon, […]

When the fog lifted, the view of the glacier was a sight for sore eyes.

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The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.