"White hope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fanatic. Only a fanatic could accomplish what Eustis has accomplished. His one idea is the very sound old idea that people should remain on the land. He starts in to show his people how to do it successfully. Once started, the work grows like Jonah's gourd. He becomes a sort of rural white hope. So far, so good. But reclamation work, experimenting, blooded stock, up-to-the-minute machinery, labor-saving devices, chemicals, high-priced experts, labor itself, all that calls for money, plenty of money. Your father's work grew to its monumental proportions because he'd gotten ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... "heavy weight—white hope" section, composed of hammer-heavers and shot-putters—Tug Cardiff, Beef McNaughton, Pudge Langdon, Buster Brown, Biff Pemberton, Hefty Hollingsworth, and Bunch Bingham, equipped with megaphones, and with the basso profundo voices nature gave them, lined up on both ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice |
