R. Scott Williams

“none of Dr. Copeland’s tips would cure someone suffering from pernicious anemia.”

— R. Scott Williams

“All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous. The seekers for prizes tend to labor not for inherent excellence but for alien rewards;…

— R. Scott Williams

“it breaks my heart when I think of those last few moments when the thought came to him that he could best…

— R. Scott Williams

“Just four months after the show first aired, it had more than forty million listeners every single evening.”

— R. Scott Williams

“supreme minstrels of the air whose homely philosophy of the commonplace has made them beloved in almost every household in the land.”

— R. Scott Williams

“Professor of entomology Jeffrey Lockwood wrote that the insects streamed overhead for five days. The swarm was 1,800 miles long and at…

— R. Scott Williams

“And it is probably that only on the brink of eternity most of us become conscious how silly and useless hate is.”

— R. Scott Williams

“During his two-year term, Hunt introduced the inspections of tenement houses, appointed school nurses, provided food inspection and dental services for school…

— R. Scott Williams

“Movie theaters began turning the show on in the lobby when it aired, to keep people from going home to listen to…

— R. Scott Williams

“July 1905 issue of McClure’s Magazine was titled “Ohio: A Tale of Two Cities.” He pointed out the corruption in Cincinnati and…

— R. Scott Williams

“I have found that the gunman, the thief, the prostitute, the confidence man and all the odd human flotsam spewed up from…

— R. Scott Williams

“No Street will ever compare to our Court. It was the capital of Boyville when the world was corduroyed and there seemed…

— R. Scott Williams

“Henry McIntyre met Cobb at the train station and insisted his son’s “close friend” should stay at his house instead of in…

— R. Scott Williams

“In no instance were large gobs of similar copy quoted…and after all, why should the most successful columnist in the business take…

— R. Scott Williams

“a sign in a West Twenty-Ninth Street restaurant that read, ‘Don’t hesitate to ask for credit, as we have the most polite…

— R. Scott Williams

“No one is the villain of his own story,”

— R. Scott Williams

“We are not Republicans, not Democrats, not Greenback and not Prohibitionists. We simply intend to support good men and condemn bad ones,…

— R. Scott Williams