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Bishop Brown, in Galion, Ohio, shows signs of fight. The church is full of heretics, says he, and he will not get out until the other heretics get out. Then he makes the crack which is intended to smart in high places: "Is it my theology or my economics that is being attacked?" It is, of course, his economics, which even the Modernist handles with care...
There are the two existing summaries of Calvin Coolidge. As biographies they have their limitations. They tell the outstanding facts. Both are favorable to the President. But he remains a tough nut for his biographers to crack; they have not the leverage of distance...
...Herbert Merton Jessel was made a baron. He served in the Ministry of Supply during the War and can be termed a soldier-politician, having joined the 17th Lancers, one of Britain's crack regiments, when 20 years of age. Aged 57, he has been an M.P. several times. It was he who carried the Old Age Pensions Act through the House of Commons...
...Washington, though, is the tough nut to crack. After I had wandered around there without any success for more than two hours, I was about to decide that the capital was as dry as a bone. Then I went into a barber shop for a shave. The barber asked me if I wanted bay rum. I told him I preferred real rum. He put me in touch with a $12 bottle...
...their historian, the Lieutenant Governor of Papua, says, they are a "race of kindly killers". Now what is murder, however exquisitely it may be performed, without the accompanying heat of strong passions? Instead of shuddering deliciously the average man, if he were a spectator, would probably laugh and crack a stale joke until he was split by a spear...