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...life in our own times is poorly organized for great adventure and much better organized for regularly. Adventure has made a few successful men in politics, but it has unmade many moves. Men like Curtis picturesque, daring, headlong, vivid come to Washington and are swallowed by the system. Hitherto bold, they cover up, play safe, risk nothing, watch their chances and advance by inches...
Curtis is an outsider, but a real contender. Nor would there by any essential injustice in his nomination. For he represents bold and dashing individuality tamed to the drab purposes of party routine. And that is essentially the history of politics in America
...thus, in the natural course of events, Cambridge has become more and more the busy American city, as it has lost, conversely, the atmosphere of a quiet academic center. The boosters are in control, and their little signboard at the Anderson Bridge represents the attitude of the city: bold capitals proclaim industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid...
Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie. Treacherous Steward "Jack" Horner filched and stole them out. Later this bold deed was totally emasculated in a nursery rhyme...
...delight of all, this roused Ohio's fussy Fess to accuse Senator LaFollette of an ulterior motive. President Coolidge had not decided not to run, explained Senator Fess: he had merely chosen; he was still available ; Senator Fess knew better than other Senators, etc., etc. Idaho's bold Borah and several others were for retaining the rider because they interpreted "I do not choose" and subsequent statements to be the utterances of an honest man and not a foxy phrasemaker. Senator Borah did President Coolidge the honor of believing that there is "no possibility of the present incumbent...