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...Britain, aware that the U. S. possesses an antipathy to joining a league whose "teeth" might become U. S. soldiers, sidetracked the Protocol, for which was substituted the "regional" Locarno security agreements. The Latin nations continue to protest that teeth must be put into the League before it can bite the armed enemies of peace...
There are fallacies in the reasoning of the Gadfly. And, true to its name, it has a certain insectivorous bite which may either add to or detract from its appeal. But as an expression of opinion on a vital problem it is to be commended. It is only from the spirit and the actuality of disagreement in theory that progress comes...
...been said about a filibuster. I do not know that I exactly understand what that word means, but if filibuster means to speak, or filibuster means to vote, I want to say right now that I would to GOD I had the power to stand here without eating a bite or taking a drink or sleeping a wink until 12 o'clock on the fourth day of March, 1931, if it would keep this iniquitous, infernal machine from being put on the people of America. If you call that a filibuster, then I am guilty." Sessions were begun...
Almost all men-from the strong boy who can bite pieces out of a crowbar, to the grubbiest, most dissipated little street sheik-believe that they secrete in their right arms a power that will maim and devastate. Some go through life without ever suffering a disillusion on this score; others have their prayer, "Just gimme a sock at 'em," gratified, but administer the sock only to find that it has small effect. It lands fearfully on the point of a jaw, and the recipient smiles and shakes his head as if a drop of water had landed...
...pupils and a countenance first pale, then livid, to lie there writhing as if in the clutches of an invisible but murderous wrestler who twists his head in a series of jerks toward one or other shoulder, screws his limbs, contorts his body-a demon who causes him to bite his own tongue, eject the contents of his bowels and bladder, to bubble at the mouth with foam until his aspect becomes so shocking that it may well induce a similar attack in the beholder-this devil-ridden man may be an epileptic...