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Tough Tarbell Trivia
04-29-2013, 07:47 AM,
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Rob: great to have you back. That indeed was a tough trivia question!
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07-05-2013, 08:35 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
This hasn't anything to do with Tarbell, per se, although it is connected.

Of whom did William E. Barton say "It is unfortunate, if this story came so vividly to [X's] recollection in 1865, that he waited more than a half century before telling it."

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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07-05-2013, 09:33 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Henry B. Rankin.
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07-05-2013, 10:49 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Good job Roger. It was Rankin.
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
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07-05-2013, 12:55 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Generally speaking Tarbell was a very disciplined writer. Given that her pen was her only real means of support she had to be. However, there was one book which took her almost 13 years to write.

What was that book?

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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07-05-2013, 03:15 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
The Business of Being a Woman?
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07-05-2013, 03:27 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Good guess Roger, but that's not it.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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07-06-2013, 07:33 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
First clue.

It was in a series.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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07-06-2013, 09:03 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
(07-06-2013, 07:33 AM)Rob Wick Wrote: First clue.

It was in a series.

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Rob,

I thinbk she serialized her biography of Napoleon. Was it that work?

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07-06-2013, 09:16 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Joe. Good guess but not the correct one.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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07-06-2013, 11:51 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Next clue.

The series editor had a famous son.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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07-06-2013, 12:24 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
(07-06-2013, 11:51 AM)Rob Wick Wrote: Next clue.

The series editor had a famous son.

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This is a tough one! Could it be her autobiography: "All in a Day's Work"?
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07-06-2013, 12:53 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Joe but that's not it either.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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07-06-2013, 08:03 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
I'll go with the obvious. Her "Life of Abraham Lincoln"
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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07-06-2013, 08:29 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Afraid not Gene.

Next clue:

It was the ninth book in the series it appeared in.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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