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...rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when the Nazis were venting their rage at the von Papen Cabinet, tart-tongued Goebbels coined the bon mot of the week at the expense of General von Schleicher: "Bayonets may be good for lots of things, but one cannot sit on them forever." The quotation that caused his muzzling last week was angrier and not so funny. Writing of the Beuthen death sentences he said...
...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
...acceptance of an elementary knowledge of a modern language to supplement a reading knowledge of another modern language results in considerable waste of time and effort. Slight acquaintance with a language, such as that involved in an "elementary knowledge," may give an ability to read inscriptions, tags, and bon mots, but it can certainly not give the student a literary appreciation of it. The supposition that after a student has an elementary knowledge, he will continue the study of it by himself has proved to be utopian. A single year spent in learning grammar and syntax thus has frequently...
...little ewe lamb and some miserable scoundrel came and snatched it away from him. The fair city of Augusta had one little ewe lamb and TIME has come and snatched it away from her. The lamb was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who has visited the Bon Air for the past 20 years every spring, who is an honorary member of our Bar Association, who preaches to us every time he comes here, who is our chiefest drawing card and of social and educational value to us and yet on p. 27 of TIME Feb. 15, Dr. Butler's annual...
...black-and-silver studio apartments and spirituous clinkings in the shaker can lend urbanity to commonplace repartee. He dislikes the glib patter that comes forth like a well-learned lesson from the actors' mouths. He misses that moment of hesitation which, in real life, attends the birth of a bon...