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...days later the proposals were published and the Prime Minister's lips were unsealed. He made a speech again. It was a speech in which he confessed his error, but he said nothing to explain what had caused him to say that, when his lips were unsealed, he could tell us things which would prevent any single man from voting against the proposals which five days later he abandoned, confessing they had been made or sanctioned by the Cabinet in error...
Harris & Ewing is Washington's oldest and most conservative picture agency. Specializing in official portraits, it customarily takes great pains to curry official favor, stay in officialdom's good graces. In releasing this unusual photograph, however, Harris & Ewing did not merely neglect to explain the circumstances of its taking but captioned it as follows: "PENSIVE PRESIDENT PONDERS PROBLEMS. Washington, D. C. President Franklin Roosevelt, posing for photographers on his 54th birthday, is caught in a meditative pose. The photo was made a few minutes after he conferred with Secretary Henry Vallace, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Attorney General Homer...
Said the Prosecutor to the prisoner, "Just explain your motives to your heart's content...
...netted him over 10,000 proverbs. Because ill-health downed him before he could ready his book for the press, able Assistant Janet Heseltine supplied the introduction and index. Compiler Smith lists his proverbs alphabetically, dates the earliest published examples, gives illustrative quotations, but is not always able to explain their origins. Since most familiar proverbs need no translation for native English-speakers, few are given...
...there Free Will? Absolutely yes! says Upton Sinclair. Is there a God? "I can't prove to you by reason that there is a God, and I can't explain His ways to you-all the cruelties and blind waste of this universe. But this I can surely say: that it is better to be happy than sad, better to be active than impotent." He admits that he has taken a good deal on faith: "I have made my ethical code out of the hunger and thirst after social righteousness. Such a formula makes life comparatively simple...